So grisly and remarkable is her life story, at least three feature films have been made about her over the years including one starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, and now Jennifer Lopez - who has admitted to being "forever fascinated" by the criminal - is set to take on the role in new Hollywood biopic, called The Godmother. Here, The Sun Online takes a closer look at her life and death of one of the world's most ruthless drug-smuggling criminals There's no doubt Griselda's start in life had a monumental impact on her subsequent life of crime.
Born in Columbia to an alcoholic prostitute mother who beat her, as a child Griselda would dig graves to bury the dead in the civil war-torn country, and by her teens she was also a prostitute and pickpocket. Shockingly, she was believed to have committed her first murder at just 11 - when she helped kidnap a ten-year-old boy from a nearby upscale neighbourhood, shooting him dead when his family didn't pay the ransom.
When it came to building her empire, it can not be argued Griselda wasn't 'creative' in her techniques. Part of her drug smuggling operation involved creating custom-made lingerie to carry packets of cocaine. She survived and in one version of the story and with Griselda, there are always several , she grabbed his gun and proceeded to mow down his six bodyguards.
Griselda married third husband Dario Sepulveda in , a killer with whom she had her youngest child, Michael Corleone Blanco. Pictured: Griselda with her son Michael Blanco. By , she married third husband Dario Sepulveda, a killer with whom she had her youngest child, Michael Corleone Blanco. They moved to Miami — Griselda escaping detection because her face had been so ravaged by cocaine that she was unrecognisable from old photos.
Miami was awash with drugs money but in the grip of a vicious narcotics war in which Griselda — who was played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in a made-for-TV film, Cocaine Godmother — triumphed thanks to her unmatched capacity for violence.
Two rival gangsters were killed and four innocent bystanders injured. Miami rapidly became the most violent city in the U. Those unfortunate enough to be with a target when her gunmen arrived were killed, including children as young as four. She was also ferociously jealous, and had eight strippers murdered when she suspected them of sleeping with her husband. And she spent it with relish. Flamboyant and self-indulgent, the luxury-loving Griselda had a fleet of expensive cars and wore jewellery that had once belonged to Argentine actress and first lady Eva Peron.
By the time she was released from prison in , two of her sons had been killed by rivals in Colombia, and Griselda was deported there as an illegal U. Pictured: Griselda with her son Michael. She was openly bisexual and held cocaine-fuelled lesbian and bisexual orgies in a mirrored room at her opulent Miami mansion where she lived with a German Shepherd she named Hitler. Visiting cocaine criminals would rub a bronze bust of her head at the mansion entrance for luck.
By Sepulveda left her, returning to Colombia and kidnapping their son Michael. Needless to say, she had Husband No 3 assassinated, the gunmen shooting him in his car as Michael sat next to him. Although she was an expert at disguise, federal agents finally found her there, arresting her in as she sat in bed reading a Bible. She was tried for only three murders and spent more than a decade behind bars, still managing to run her business through her children.
By the time she was released in , two of her sons had been killed by rivals in Colombia, and Griselda was deported there as an illegal U. Officials expected her enemies to kill her within days but astonishingly she survived for eight years, living without bodyguards in a quiet Medellin suburb.
And Hollywood has a poor track record when it comes to glamorising violent criminals. Blanco is, ultimately, most famous for being a bloodthirsty monster. Support the independent voice of Miami and help keep the future of New Times free.
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She was gunned down in Colombia in , at age Raised by an abusive mother, Blanco turned to a life of crime and prostitution at a young age.
Members of the cartel were able to smuggle large quantities of cocaine across the border using special undergarments that Blanco had presumably designed and manufactured. In the mids, Blanco left Colombia for New York. By this time, the infamous drug trafficker was running a massive narcotics ring, her standing in the industry rising to a level that would match other kingpins like Pablo Escobar. However, the U. Blanco had already fled to Colombia by that point, but it wasn't long before she returned to the United States, this time settling in Miami.
Throughout her time in the United States, Blanco's continued involvement in the Colombian drug trade led to her participation in several other crimes, including driveby shootings and other murders motivated by drugs, money and power. By the late s, detectives had linked her to dozens of murders, including a drug-rival shooting in a Miami liquor store, but she always managed to evade authorities.
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