![]() ![]() However, both Blanco and Bravo knew that to make any serious money they needed to be in New York, where the cocaine market was worth millions. “I’ve been told by people who were close to her that this was just Griselda Blanco’s nature.”ġ1 Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Blanco next year in an original Lifetime movie called Cocaine Godmother Credit: Shutterstockīetween them, the couple quickly established a successful drugs operation and lived well on the profits of their fledgling business. “Some people thought that Blanco felt she had to be more violent because she was a woman in a man’s world, but I don’t,” says Al Singleton, a retired Miami police detective who was part of the federal task force that targeted the drug queen when she was at her most powerful. The very nature of her murder – a motorcycle assassination – mimicked Blanco’s calling card during her death-and-dealing reign in ‘80s Miami, when her far-reaching drug cartel netted £60million every month in cocaine trafficking. “I’ve been fascinated by the life of this corrupt and complicated woman for many years,” the singer revealed when the project was announced last year. ![]() ![]() Such is the drama of Blanco’s rise and fall that there is another (as yet untitled) high-profile biopic in the pipeline from heavyweight channel HBO – this time starring Jennifer Lopez as the drug baroness. She didn’t give a s**t.”ġ1 Blanco became the first Colombian drug lord to export the Medellín Cartel’s cocaine to the United States She was the movie star starring in her own movie. If I had balls, I’d have grabbed them from time to time. Talking about her transformation to play the 5ft-nothing cocaine queen, the actress added: “I gained weight, I was hunched over. “There’s something fantastic about how she was the boss in a dangerous man’s world. “I’ve tried not to homogenise her or find a sympathetic quality, because I don’t think she had one,” said Catherine at a press conference for the movie in Cannes last month. Called Cocaine Godmother, with Catherine Zeta-Jones playing the lead, it’s set to air early next year on Lifetime. So infamous was her life that just seven months before her murder in September 2012, Blanco made a deal with a Hollywood production company to tell her story. The dying woman was no innocent – she was the notorious “Godmother of cocaine”, Griselda Blanco. To a passer-by, it may have looked like a robbery gone wrong, but Yesica knew the truth – it was an assassination. 11 Infamous Griselda Blanco came to be known as "The Godmother"Īs people scattered from the shop, the 69-year-old victim’s daughter-in-law Yesica Trujillo, who’d been paying for the order at the counter, knelt by the dying woman. ![]()
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