Rubin Carter, the boxer portrayed in song by Bob Dylan and onscreen by Denzel Washington, has died from prostate cancer at the age of 76.
Known by his nickname, Hurricane, Carter died in his sleep on Sunday in Toronto, Canada.
His promising boxing career was cut short in 1967 when he was convicted of three murders in his native New Jersey.
He spent 19 years in prison before being exonerated in 1985 after multiple appeals.
His ordeal, and the alleged racial motivations behind it, became the subject of Dylan's 1975 song Hurricane.
His story was adapted for the 1999 film The Hurricane, which earned Washington an Oscar nomination.
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