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Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel.
Jan 25, 2024 · Colombian cartel leader Griselda Blanco dominated the U.S. cocaine trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Read about her younger years, sons, death, movies, and more.
Michael Corleone Blanco was reportedly unhappy about the way his late mother has been portrayed in the series and suggested that the narcotics trafficking queen looked beautiful in real life and...
Jan 25, 2024 · Griselda's life of crime started at a young age. When she was 11, Griselda reportedly kidnapped a young boy and killed him when his wealthy parents didn't pay the ransom, per Vice. According...
May 9, 2024 · Griselda Blanco (born February 15, 1943, Santa Marta?, Colombia—died September 3, 2012, Medellín) was a Colombian cocaine trafficker who amassed a vast empire and was a central figure in the violent drug wars in Miami in the 1970s and ’80s.
Jan 25, 2024 · Blanco’s life was far from easy, with the young girl growing up in poverty, allegedly turning to prostitution and pickpocketing to make ends meet at a young age. In one apocryphal story noted...
Feb 2, 2024 · On September 3, 2012, 69-year-old Griselda Blanco stepped outside a butcher’s shop in Medellín. Suddenly, two shots rang out––they had come from the gun of assassins on a motorcycle, which ...
Feb 10, 2024 · Michael Corleone Blanco, her youngest son raised at the height of her drug-trafficking empire, admits she was a rigid, stern woman he affectionately called cariñosa — an endearing term given...
Sep 15, 2023 · Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and the “Black Widow,” Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s — when a young Pablo Escobar was still boosting cars.
Starring Sofia Vergara as ambitious and murderous Miami cartel head, "Griselda" reveals dramatized life, business acumen, and downfall of “the Godmother,” one of America’s highest earning drug traffickers in the 1970s and 80s.
Jan 20, 2018 · According to Cocaine Cowboys II, Blanco was a dirt-poor kid in Colombia who committed her first murder at age 11 and later worked as a teenage prostitute. Blanco famously loved the Godfather...
Feb 13, 2024 · Abandoned by her father, Blanco was taken to Medellin at a young age and grew up in a shanty slum where her mother, said to be an alcoholic prostitute, beat her savagely.
Jan 26, 2024 · To clear Amilcar’s name, Griselda orders the killing of a murder witness and his young wife, leaving their infant an orphan. A mother to three boys herself, she wrings her hands.
Jan 25, 2024 · Netflix’s Griselda stars Sofia Vergara as Griselda Blanco, an ambitious and murderous woman who became Miami’s chief drug queenpin in the 1970s and ’80s. But there’s another woman whose ...
Feb 1, 2024 · During this time, Blanco had her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco (named after the character from the film The Godfather) with her third husband, Darío Sepúlveda. Sepúlveda left her in...
Jan 23, 2024 · Griselda Blanco was born in 1943, the daughter of an alcoholic sex worker and an absentee father, in Cartagena, Colombia. At a young age, Blanco moved to Medellin, where she lived in the...
Jan 17, 2024 · The new Netflix series Griselda casts light on a lesser-known figure in drug trafficking, and is part of a growing awareness of the women who run drug cartels in Latin America.
Jan 26, 2024 · Martín Fajardo - Osvaldo Trujillo-Blanco (AKA Ozzy) - Griselda’s youngest son from her first marriage. Like Dixon, Ozzy also became a drug trafficker and supplier until his murder.
Jan 25, 2024 · Born in 1943 in Cartagena, Colombia, Blanco was introduced to the criminal lifestyle at a young age. By the time she was 11 years old living in Medillín, she had kidnapped, ransomed, and killed...
Jan 25, 2024 · Michael Corleone Blanco, Griselda Blanco’s fourth and youngest child, is still alive. He calls himself, per the website of his lifestyle brand, the “proud son of Griselda Blanco.”
Jan 29, 2024 · Griselda Blanco young: Here's how her son Michael Corleone responded to Netflix, Sofia Vergara's depiction of the Cocaine Grandmother.
Jan 26, 2024 · What happened to Griselda Blanco's sons in real life? Here's where Dixon, Osvaldo, and Michael Corleone ended up. The drug queenpin's youngest son has sued Netflix and Sofía Vergara over the...
Jan 23, 2023 · She is believed to have engaged in sex work and been a pickpocket before her crimes really escalated at age 11, when she's believed to have participated in a kidnapping for ransom of a young boy. When the child's family couldn't pay the ransom, it was Blanco who pulled the trigger.
Griselda est une mini-série américaine basée sur la vie de Griselda Blanco, une célèbre baronne de la drogue colombienne, diffusée sur Netflix le 25 janvier 2024 1 . Elle est réalisée par Andrés Baiz, produite par Eric Newman et Sofía Vergara et tournée à Los Angeles 2 .
Jun 27, 2024 · Griselda Blanco’s sons lived lives marked by crime, danger, and tragedy, heavily influenced by their mother’s notorious legacy. Dixon Trujillo Blanco, Uber Trujillo Blanco, and Osvaldo Trujillo Blanco were deeply involved in the drug trade from a young age, facing violent ends due to their criminal activities. Dixon and Uber were both ...
