Big Fifty, a product of the Detroit ghetto, runs every hustle imaginable to become one of the Motor City's most legendary Queenpins.
Known as "The Bank Fraud Queen", Jamila had rapper and athlete clients. She inflated credit scores, hiked up the value of houses and made bank flipping the houses. From 2002-03, Jamila bought eight properties worth over $29 million.
Thelma Wright marries into the Philly drug game, then tries to avoid her husband's fate when she runs her own west coast hustle.
American Gangster: Trap Queens is a new installment of the critically acclaimed American Gangster series that examines the lives and the legend behind some of America's most notorious female criminals set against the backdrop of the cities they ruled
Shauna Scott was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling crack cocaine, but after more than 10 years of confinement, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence.
Aisha Hall tells the story of her transition from a promising college student with a track scholarship to one of the most successful white-collar hustlers in Detroit.
When her boyfriend drains her savings and vanishes, young mother-of-two Ayana Bean uses her position at a college to appropriate financial aid checks meant for needy students.
Jean Brown leaves the poverty of Jamaica to find fortune and infamy in America. She hustles her ex-husband out of his drug smuggling operation and builds it into an international weed empire.
Charmaine Roman lives a dangerous double-life: she's a doting mother and grandmother to her family, but a ruthless ring-leader to her Jamaican drug gang.
Track star Jemeker Thompson follows her husband into a life of crime, becoming an L.A. cocaine Queenpin living among the Hollywood stars.
Perrion gets caught up in the Alabama drug game. Public shootouts, cartel dealings and murder indictments follow in the wake of her rise to Queenpin. She was the original Queen of the South.
A daddy's girl follows in her kingpin father's footsteps. Ties to the Black Mafia Family make Brandi a player, but a backstabbing friend causes her years of incarceration and pain. She was the dope gang princess until she claimed her crown as Queen.
Dwen led a double life where she would become a master identity thief, scamming millions from her victims while becoming the toast of Black Hollywood. She was flossing with celebs while fleecing trust funds.
A tragic childhood and a twist of fate launches Tiffani's 17-year career of stealing millions in merchandise from malls all around Michigan. Before her fall, she was boosting millions from the mall.
Shauntay gains a rep as a sharp-shooting coke-dealing Queenpin on the streets of Kansas City. After a deadly confrontation, she was so feared on the streets they made her America's Most Wanted.
Tonesa Welch found luxury and fame as a key part of the drug-dealing Black Mafia Family, but her son's involvement in the business helped her turn her life around.
Connections with star athletes brought Peggy Fulford millions as a superstar manager, but the alleged fraud she committed in the process eventually fell out from under her.
A dominant crack empire gave Jamaican immigrant Claudette Hubbard a fast track to the American dream, but the devastating toll it took on her family and community led to a rebirth.
Baltimore politician Catherine Pugh's dreams came true when she rose to the mayor's office, but her career collapsed when she took the fall for a scandal over a line of children's books.
Distracted from her musical dreams by the allure of the drug hustle, Priscilla Echi made a critical decision that transformed her into a powerful activist.
Kimberly Smedley struggles with low self-esteem and is eager to help other women enhance their figures with silicone butt injections, but she does so without a medical license.
Candace Wilson discovers there are millions to be made through cash-only pain management clinics, but the opioid epidemic takes a terrible toll on her hometown of New Orleans and beyond.
Gina Cabell describes her journey from rebellious teen to car thief, expert scammer, dark web denizen, wanted fugitive with dozens of aliases, and finally, back to her true self.
Baltimore's Shontel Greene explains how her mother's opioid addiction contributed to her path from straight-A student with med school dreams to feared morphine dealer.
Harlem, NYC, native Tonia Taylor is intrigued by the illegal drug business and transforms into the infamous dealer Miss T by age 21, but a series of violent deaths makes her want out.
The City of Brotherly Love is anything but for Sydia Bagley, a mother at a young age with a traumatic past who falls in love with a charismatic ringleader and becomes an armed robber.
Single mom Lonett "Cookie" Williams enters the real estate game and makes her "Dynasty"-inspired millions with forged documents, fraudulent loans and kickbacks -- but her scheme eventually falls apart.
A fateful choice made in a moment of desperation sends young Pam Driskel into the dangerous world of crack cocaine, where she tangles with violent dealers, Mexican cartels and the FBI.
Charismatic pastor and so-called prophetess Tracie Dickey spins a web of fraud and abuse as she manipulates her vulnerable followers through brainwashing and threats of divine punishment.
Demi "Mimi" Harrison explains how a troubled childhood and her own obsessive materialism led her into (and eventually out of) a life of lucrative and deadly drug dealing, theft and fraud.
Felicia Pearson channeled her rough Baltimore childhood into both a role on "The Wire" and a rap career, but her double life of fame and trapping cost her dearly.
Black Madam made a name for herself with the first trans-exclusive escort service, and later, she became the queen of silicone injections, but her unlicensed medical work soon turned deadly.
Preacher's kid Angela Wright lived a double life as a schoolteacher and major Atlanta cocaine distributor, leading to a long game of cat-and-mouse with the feds.
Highly educated entrepreneur Sharita Mathis struck gold with a multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme that preyed on vulnerable populations.
Driven by her experiences with racial inequality, Celeste Wells spent three decades pulling off sophisticated heists and criminal hustles before running highly lucrative drug rings.
