Henry Zebrowski

No, he was not.

I guess he was busy that night.

It all came together very fast.

Soon after Rathken's wedding, he discovered that both the FBI and the DEA were investigating him for drug smuggling.

To the point where they were already tapping his phone.

Now, both Rapkin and Dante knew that Rapkin's phones were being tapped, but Dante was getting incredibly high on his own supply.

So he'd call Rapkin on the phone, coked out of his mind, wanting to talk specifically about cocaine and cocaine smuggling at great length.

So how much cocaine you want me to bring your house tonight?

Or Rapkin was, to say the least, highly annoyed by Dante's reckless behavior.

And Dante got so out of pocket between the cocaine abuse, the street brawls, and the loose lips that Rapkin eventually just stopped taking Dante's calls.

Wow.

Yeah.

He screened his calls just to avoid Dante.

By 1972, Count Dante was longing to get back into the world of martial arts.

And since some of his students had successfully formed their own martial arts scene in Fall River, Massachusetts, hometown of Lizzie Borden, the Count relocated and reopened the Black Dragon Fighting Society.

There in Fall River, Dante really did try to reenter the scene.

He even went so far as to take out ads and variety, offering himself for acting roles after the death of Bruce Lee, because Dante hoped that he could fill the hole left by the greatest martial arts movie star of all time with his white blackula routine.

But Count Dante seemingly couldn't keep his nose clean.

Literally.

Yes, that went both for participating in criminal activities and doing copious amounts of cocaine.