She moves to Los Angeles to lie low, but is eventually found and arrested along with her three sons while Michael is sent to live with a relative in Miami.
The DEA have been watching her operation for years. Griselda, herself, develops an addiction to smoking cocaine that makes her increasingly irrational and unreliable. Her fourth son Michael, fathered by her most recent boyfriend Darío Sepúlveda, is kidnapped and it takes weeks to get him back home. Her marriage falls apart and Carolina dies of a drug overdose. Her three eldest sons have all become dangerous gangsters. Griselda and her family are pushed to the edge by the stress of their illegal business. As a result, Miami sees a steep rise in crime. She does business with Pablo Escobar back in Colombia, and becomes the queen of the cocaine trade. She comes up with the idea to put assassins on motorcycles as they will be able to move around the city faster than with cars. Griselda soon gets remarried to a man named Alberto Bravo, but keeps Carolina as a companion for years.Īfter moving to Miami, Griselda's drug empire quickly grows. She meets Carolina, an American woman with whom she begins a romance.
Griselda, fed up with her abusive marriage, leaves her husband and takes her children. She earns money by creating fake passports for cocaine smugglers, and moves into the smuggling trade herself when she realizes that using beautiful women as mules will lower the chances of them being caught. She eventually comes to live in the US with her first husband and three sons Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo. Griselda Blanco grows up in poverty in Colombia, and commits her first murder after being forced into childhood prostitution. It premiered at the 2017 Camerimage in Poland and showed on Lifetime channel on January 20, 2018.
The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Griselda Blanco, who was known as the Cocaine Godmother. Cocaine Godmother is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film directed by Guillermo Navarro and written by David McKenna.
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