Bank robber who held gun to Paula Deen's head in 1987 heist found dead in NYC
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A man notorious for once robbing a bank and holding up disgraced celebrity chef Paula Deen back in 1987 was discovered dead in his Brooklyn home on Thursday.

Eugene Thomas King, Jr. was found unresponsive in his apartment in Brooklyn by authorities and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical services later that evening, as reported by sources.

The medical examiner determined that King passed away from natural causes. He was 75 years old.


The convicted bank robber had held up Deen while sticking up a bank where the not-yet-famous chef had been working as a teller.
The convicted bank robber had held up Deen while sticking up a bank where the not-yet-famous chef had been working as a teller.

“Yes, of course,” Deen told the examiner. When asked to clarify when, she said, “It was probably when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head.” 

Deen’s admission to using the slur to describe the robber destroyed her career, while also bringing King to the public’s attention. 

Reporters later asked King about his reaction to Deen’s use of the slur. 

“I really feel for her,” King told Inside Edition in 2013. “She’s being persecuted because of that one little mistake in her judgment.  She was acting out of anger.”

The NYPD directed inquiries to the city medical examiner, which did not immediately respond to a request for information.

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