research Her favourite possessions included a bone-china tea set that once belonged to the Queen and an altogether less regal gold-plated, emerald-studded submachinegun. Griselda Blanco se vuelve una pionera en el comercio de cocana basado en Miami. Who wrote the music and lyrics for Kinky Boots? [6] Editors, Key Witness Against Cocaine Cartel Dies of Natural Causes, The Washington Post, (September 16, 2008). In turn, Blanco constructed her own melodrama based upon an Al Pacinos character; she named her youngest son Michael Corleone Blanco. Then suddenly, youre thinking, Oh my god, Im doing a sex scene with Catherine Zeta-Jones, she continued. 2. A Colombian law rejected the extradition of a citizen to another country so U.S. authorities never filed an extradition request for Blanco. [2] Frontline, The Godfather of Cocaine, February 14, 1995, transcript http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts/1309.html. The mum-of-four might have stood at just five foot tall, but Griselda had been a formidable and fearsome character and not someone to mess with. Admittedly, she had a tough start in life. When the boy's parents refused to pay a ransom, she shot and killed him. Corben went on to do the even more sensationalist Cocaine Cowboys: Hustlin with the Godmother about her wheeling and dealing in California and her love affair with a street dealer and thug named Charles Crosby. The assassination utilized a technique the motorcycle drive-by hit that Blanco is said to have invented, wrote The Guardian. Griselda Blanco se vuelve una pionera en el comercio de cocana basado en Miami. Several years later, she married her first husband, Carlos Trujillo, a forger of immigration papers. Blanco had four children and was married at the time.