Hells angels sonny barger death
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Hells angels sonny barger death
Sonny Barger, Hells Angels leader and legendary outlaw, dead at 83
Ralph “Sonny” Barger, the tough-living leader of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, has died after a brief battle with cancer.
He was 83.
A statement on his official Facebook page Thursday read: “If you are reading this message, you’ll know that I’m gone. I’ve asked that this note be posted immediately after my passing.”
Barger’s former lawyer, Fritz Clapp, confirmed the death to the Washington Post, saying the cause of death was liver cancer.
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Barger was the founder of the first chapter of the Hells Angels in Oakland, Calif., in 1957.
He attained near-mythic status as a rugged hellion and a cool charismatic leader of men who called themselves 1 percenters — apart from the straight-living 99 per cent of the population.
Much of that 99 per cent was genuinely fearful of the Angels with their menacing appearance, rumbling Harley Davidson motorcycles, viol