Netflix’s Griselda, starring Sofía Vergara as drug lord Griselda Blanco, only scratches the surface, say detectives, journalists, and her own son.
, brought in $80 million a month nationally, and who’s been personally implicated in a rumored 200 murders.
“I admire for what she’s done and I admire her for even taking that leap of faith to try to play my mother,” Blanco shares, adding that he’s unable to comment on the lawsuit. “That’s respectable in itself.”The Insanity Plea That Shook a Small Town She soon earned a reputation as one of the best-known cocaine smugglers in the United States. The real Blanco was five-foot-two with dimples, which helped her earn another, friendlier nickname: “Dollface.” Although it was estimated that Blanco had several hundred people on her payroll, she liked to work with women and had ties to a Medellín lingerie shop that manufactured pockets in bras and girdles so her mules could carry kilos of cocaine in them, as depicted in the series.
“Her empire was a subset of the cartel’s operations in South Florida, which had a dozen other arms,” explains Leen. “So she was one arm, but she was most prominent because of Dadeland and her role in all these murders. So, her bloodthirsty connection to these murders gave her more of a reputation than her actually moving the coke.”
“That was a stark realization of how outgunned we were because back then, the only weapon we were allowed to carry was a six-shot .38-caliber revolver,” Singleton tellsThree years later, Blanco ordered the murder of Jesus “Chucho” Castro, a former enforcer, that led to the drive-by death of his 2-year-old son, Johnny Castro. In the series, Griselda appears distressed when learning of the toddler’s death, but the real-life Blanco was far less forgiving.
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