American Gangster: Trap Queens
A true crime series detailing the criminal chronicles of some of America's most notorious female gangsters, set against the backdrop of the cities they ruled.
Main Cast
Lil' Kimas Narrator
Jeezyas Narrator
Da Bratas Narrator
Episode Guide
Season 1
- Episode 1: Delrhonda Hood
Aired: Oct 17, 2019Big Fifty, a product of the Detroit ghetto, runs every hustle imaginable to become one of the Motor City's most legendary Queenpins.
- Episode 2: Jamila T. Davis
Aired: Oct 17, 2019Known 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.
- Episode 3: Thelma Wright
Aired: Oct 17, 2019Thelma Wright marries into the Philly drug game, then tries to avoid her husband's fate when she runs her own west coast hustle.
- Episode 4: Rashia Wilson
Aired: Oct 17, 2019Music promoter Rashia Wilson takes a Tampa tax fraud hustle to the absolute extreme and rips off the IRS for millions.
- Episode 5: Shauna Scott
Aired: Oct 17, 2019Shauna Barry-Scott runs a crack-dealing operation, spending the profits on the poor. After a drug bust, President Obama could be her only chance at salvation.
- Episode 6: Aisha Hall
Aired: Jan 9, 2020Aisha Hall, the 'Female Wolf of Wall Street,' cooks up a multi-million-dollar finance scheme that lands her in hot water with the Feds.
- Episode 7: Ayana Bean
Aired: Jan 9, 2020When 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.
- Episode 8: Jean Brown
Aired: Jan 9, 2020Jean 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.
- Episode 9: Charmaine Roman
Aired: Jan 9, 2020Charmaine 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.
- Episode 10: Jemeker Thompson
Aired: Jan 9, 2020Track star Jemeker Thompson follows her husband into a life of crime, becoming an L.A. cocaine Queenpin living among the Hollywood stars.
Season 2
- Episode 1: Perrion Roberts
Aired: Jan 14, 2021Perrion 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.
- Episode 2: Brandi Davis
Aired: Jan 14, 2021A 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.
- Episode 3: Dwen Curry
Aired: Jan 14, 2021Dwen 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.
- Episode 4: Tiffani Rose Peak
Aired: Jan 14, 2021A 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.
- Episode 5: Shauntay Henderson
Aired: Jan 14, 2021Shauntay 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.
- Episode 6: Tonesa Welch
Aired: Oct 7, 2021Detroit's sweetheart transforms into a powerful drug Queenpin. After falling in love, and joining forces with "Southwest T," Tonesa becomes "First Lady of BMF." She ran with the meanest, rinsed with the cleanest: This queen controlled the bag.
- Episode 7: Peggy Fulford
Aired: Oct 7, 2021Peggy was the MVP accountant to ballers, and she led the game in steals. A New Orleans woman found her way to living a lavish lifestyle of staggering wealth… by hustling millions from famous sports stars, like Dennis Rodman and Ricky Williams.
- Episode 8: Claudette Hubbard
Aired: Oct 7, 2021A Jamaican immigrant seeks out the American dream by dealing kilos of cocaine. A major sting operation threatens Claudette's future in the US. She came to America to change the game but was in for a rude awakening. The game changed her.
- Episode 9: Catherine Pugh
Aired: Oct 7, 2021Catherine rises from humble beginnings to become Mayor of Baltimore. But then her secret hustle, involving nearly a million dollars in fraudulent book sales, erupts in scandal. She was mayor of Baltimore until her book of secrets shook City Hall.
- Episode 10: Priscilla Echi
Aired: Oct 7, 2021She was the angel of Harlem, until she played the devil's game. Priscilla is inspired by 90s hip-hop and her friend, DMX, to seek out a career in music. However, she starts a NYC drug hustle that gets out of hand.
Season 3
- Episode 1: Kim Smedley
Aired: Apr 7, 2022A dope queen switches her hustle to silicone injections. She was the queen of butt injections with all the glory, until a shocking betrayal proves there's a backside to every story.
- Episode 2: Candace Wilson
Aired: Apr 7, 2022Candace 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.
- Episode 3: Gina Cabel
Aired: Apr 7, 2022Gina Cabell describes her journey, which includes rebellious teenager, car thief, expert scammer, dark web denizen, and wanted fugitive with aliases.
- Episode 4: Shontel Greene
Aired: Apr 7, 2022Baltimore'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.
- Episode 5: Tonia Taylor
Aired: Apr 7, 2022Harlem, 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.
- Episode 6: Sydia Bagley
Aired: Jun 9, 2022The 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.
- Episode 7: Lonett Williams
Aired: Jun 9, 2022Single mom 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.
- Episode 8: Pam Driskel
Aired: Jun 9, 2022A 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.
- Episode 9: Tracie Dickey
Aired: Jun 9, 2022Charismatic 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.
- Episode 10: Demi Harrison
Aired: Jun 9, 2022Demi "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.
Season 4
- Episode 1: Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
Aired: Jul 10, 2025Felicia "Snoop" Pearson dives headfirst into the dangerous streets of '80s Baltimore, rising to become a feared enforcer & drug empire queen. Her ruthless journey inspires a breakout acting role on the hit TV show "The Wire," but her loyalty to old friends puts her future at risk.
- Episode 2: Black Madam
Aired: Jul 10, 2025Disowned after coming out as trans, Padge Windslowe hustles from Philly's underground to the pinnacle of black-market silicone injections. As "Black Madam," she chases fortune—until a deadly injection gone wrong brings her face-to-face with justice.
- Episode 3: Angela "Shay" Wright
Aired: Jul 10, 2025Scarred by her parents' divorce, Angela turned her pain into power—teaching in the classroom by day while transporting cocaine by night. She later plugs in to BMF to run a multi-million-dollar coke operation until a betrayal brings it all crashing down.
- Episode 4: Sharita Mathis
Aired: Jul 10, 2025Driven by her family's expectations, Sharita masterminds a Medicaid fraud, transforming bogus claims and stolen identities into a multi-million-dollar empire. But when an audit triggers a federal investigation, her world comes crashing down.
- Episode 5: Celeste Wells
Aired: Jul 10, 2025Celeste Wells, shaped by a traumatic childhood in 1950s Miami, becomes a superstar thief. From pickpocketing tourists to running drug smuggling and jewelry theft rings, her criminal empire grows—until a corrupt cop leads to her downfall.
- Episode 6: Kristell Miles
Aired: Nov 20, 2025Kristell Miles flees a troubled past for a fresh start at a HBCU in Daytona—but campus life takes a backseat when she falls for a local dealer and fast money. After crashing hard, Kristell reinvents herself to become the queenpin of Kissimmee.
- Episode 7: Starr Austin
Aired: Nov 20, 2025Starr runs game on suburban Detroit car dealerships—boosting brand-new Cadillacs and flipping them for major cash at the chop shop. She racks up millions in stolen luxury rides, but when the hustle gets too hot, Starr's empire spins out of control.
- Episode 8: Veronica Henderson
Aired: Nov 20, 2025Veronica Henderson went from bank teller to criminal mastermind—flipping the system with a $20 million credit card scam. But when the heat turns up, it's her own family who turns her in, exposing her as the brains behind the infamous "Approval Game."
- Episode 9: Nelly Idowu
Aired: Nov 20, 2025Nelly Idowu came to Utah chasing the American dream—but found a shortcut to millions. Trading ambition for deception, she masterminds a global romance scam empire, using her accounting skills to launder trap money across borders. Love was the bait. Fraud was the game.
- Episode 10: Regina Blackshear
Aired: Nov 20, 2025Regina Blackshear made millions stealing luxury furs—minks, sables, lynx—then flipping them to celebs and ballers on the black market. Crowned the Queen of Furs, her empire was unstoppable—until she joined a high-stakes jewelry heist crew that brought it all crashing down.