I am a purveyor of entertainment. Not a drug dealer.
-Claudia Crane
Claudia Crane is a night club owner, a customer to Franklin Saint and Louie's former lover.
Biography[]
Before she bought kilos Franklin, she bought merchandise from Lenny and Ray-Ray, but ended their arrangement when Franklin brought her pure product that her guests would enjoy. She even had Santos sample every brick Franklin brought forth. There are even cops on her take. She was introduced to Franklin by Louie, her former lover, who she used to hustle back in the day. There was always some romance between her and Louie, but there was always bad memories being drawn up and she reminded Louie how she used to put her in her place. There was a fight that erupted between the two in which Claudia was severely injured in. Apparently she survived the incident, but with unbearable pain in which she always had to get high just to numb it away. When Louie visited her and confronted her about sending people to ransack Jammin' Jerome's, she told her about her issues with the pain, got in a tub and decided to get high in Louie's presence. We later learn of her drowning in that very tub.
It is revealed in Season 5 that Louie admitted to killing Claudia during her LSD phase at her wedding.
Legacy[]
Claudia was a run-of-the-mill club owner who entertained her guests and hustled other women. She was also a part of the LGBT community. Though she was able to woo Louie back into her arms, she treated her more like one of her working girls later on and humiliated her in front of her guests. She was also known to show jealousy, especially after the fight with Louise when she went back to Jerome and showed it by sending people to trash his store.
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