![]() ![]() She became a pickpocket and a killer when, aged just 11, she helped kidnap a ten-year-old boy from a wealthy family. The country was racked by a brutal civil war, and Blanco and other children would entertain themselves digging holes to bury the dead. Born in a Colombian shanty town in 1943, she was raised in a Medellin slum by her mother, an alcoholic prostitute who beat her savagely. Attorney Stephen Schlessinger.Īdmittedly, she had a tough start in life. ‘She would kill anybody who displeased her - because of a debt, because they screwed up on a shipment, or she didn’t like the way they looked at her,’ said Assistant U.S. She was also the first to realise that women made better drug mules than men, as police were less likely to stop them, creating her own range of multi-pocketed lingerie so women could hide huge amounts of cocaine on smuggling runs.Ī sociopathic monster who - according to one of her prosecutors - had people murdered ‘at the drop of a hat’, she ordered her band of hired assassins, a particularly vicious gang known as Los Pistoleros, never to kill anyone without taking a body part such as a finger or ear as a trophy. She was the first to put hitmen on the back of motorcycles so that they could spray their victims with bullets and easily flee - a tactic copied by criminals across the world. ![]() For Griselda maintained her place at the top with ruthless efficiency and devilish ingenuity. However, barring a major rewriting of history, it would be hard to imagine viewers wanting to root for the Black Widow. Griselda was a sociopathic monster who, according to one of her prosecutors, had people murdered ‘at the drop of a hat’ Hustlers, similarly based on a true story, was hailed as a lurid tribute to female empowerment and Blanco, barely 5ft tall, was also a woman in a man’s world. The actress and singer, who may also direct The Godmother and who recently played a New York stripper who robs her rich Wall Street clients in Hustlers, says she’s been ‘forever fascinated’ by the story of the ‘notorious, ambitious, conniving, chilling’ Blanco. Now, eight years after her enemies gunned her down while she was out shopping, her story is to be made into a new feature film starring Jennifer Lopez. Griselda Blanco was a barely 5ft tall Colombian cocaine 'queenpin' linked to 250 murders with an empire stretching from Medellin to Miami and New Yorkĭubbed the ‘Godmother of Cocaine’ and the ‘Black Widow’ (she killed her three husbands), the debauched, flashy and utterly brutal billionaire murdered without compunction - at least when she wasn’t holding bisexual orgies, forcing men and women to have sex at gunpoint, and helping to inspire the hit TV series Miami Vice. ![]()
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