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Jay Weaver explores the connection between the Miami Housewives and Willy & Sal:

Long before they made their debuts in The Real Housewives of Miami this week , they played bit parts in a drama with a lot more reality: the life and times of legendary cocaine cowboys Willy and Sal.

Three of the new Bravo show?s trophy wives ? Alexia Echevarria, Marysol Patton and Lea Black ? shared six degrees of separation with Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, dubbed ?The Boys? during the real Miami Vice era.

Echevarria, 43, was once married to a codefendant who pleaded guilty and cooperated as a government witness in the 1990s drug-trafficking prosecution of Falcon and Magluta.

Patton, 44, was the girlfriend of a convicted, big-time cocaine distributor who also was a cooperating witness in the marquee federal case.

And Black, 56, is married to the famed lawyer Roy Black, who was paid millions to represent Magluta.

On Friday, Roy Black chuckled when a reporter brought to his attention the connections between the reality TV show ? the latest incarnation of Bravo?s Real Housewives series ? and the Willy-and-Sal case: ?It?s so Miami, that?s for sure,? he said.

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