Griselda Blanco Sons, Daughter, Husband, Family, Net Worth, Bio

Call her the godmother, the black widow, LaMadrina, the cocaine godmother, or even the queen of the drug trade and anyone who knew about Griselda Blanco, the woman who had used drugs with the cartel of Medellín, will acquiesce in the idea that, in the 1980s to 2000s, Griselda proved deserving of those names in the cocaine drug underworld of that time in Colombia and Miami.

As always, you’ll hardly find a drug lord who was (or is) not involved in the murders, and Blanco was no exception. Reportedly, she was responsible for the murder of approximately 200 people during her drug dealings. However, over time, she was sent to meet her maker, the same way she snuffed out the lives of others.

Griselda is no more, but her stories still make the ears of those who hear her sting. Here, we will organize most of the major events that marked his life, his finances as well as information on the members of his family and their future.

Griselda Blanco’s Bio

The godmother of cocaine whose full name is GriseldaBlanco Restrepo was born on February 15, 1943 in Santa Marta, Colombia. Her parents were Fernando Blanco (father) and Ana Lucía Restrepo (mother). When she was around 3 years old, her mother moved to Medellin with her and it didn’t take long before she became involved in criminal activities. Despite her childhood, Griselda became a pickpocket and kidnapper and even shot a child in her neighborhood. To add to her woes, her mother’s boyfriend was also sexually abusing her, which caused her to run away from their home when she was 16.

On the streets, there was no turning back for Griselda Blanco as she only got worse. She married Carlos Trujillo, a fellow criminal while still a teenager with whom she had three children before their divorce. In the early 70s, she started a relationship with Alberto Bravo – a drug dealer whom she later married. With the help of her second husband, Griselda got involved in the cocaine business and became very successful in this field. In the mid-1970s, she emigrated to the United States with her husband and settled in Queens, New York.

They set up a cocaine business in Queens which soon began to prosper. In April 1975, Griselda and 30 others were indicted for drug trafficking. However, she fled to Colombia to avoid arrest, but returned to the United States in the late 1970s. This time, she settled in Miami, which at the time was overrun with crime. drug related. The atmosphere of crime in Miami allowed Griselda Blanco not only to get a foothold in the cocaine business at the time, but also to get involved in drug-related violence Cocaine Cowboy Wars or Miami Drug War.

As his dominance grew, so did his enemies Drug trafficking. Due to this, several attempts to assassinate Griselda were attempted, but they all failed, as she quickly escaped to California. The law caught up with her in the bear flag state for why she was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. While in prison, the Narco-Trafficking queen continued to run her cocaine business with the help of one of her sons, Michael Blanco. In 2004, Griselda Blanco became a free woman and was deported to Medellín, Colombia.

Then, on September 3, 2012, she was murdered by an armed man who stopped at the Cardiso butcher shop where she had gone to buy meat. The gunman got off his motorbike and shot La Madrina twice in the head before disappearing into the streets on his motorbike. Thus, the fearsome Black Widow was no longer at 69 years old.

Family: husband, son, daughter

Griselda Blanco as mentioned earlier was the first married to Carlos Trujillo (1960-1969). The couple had three sons, Dixon, Uber and Osvaldo. Griselda’s three sons were killed in Colombia after serving time in prison and being deported from Colombia. According to reports, she later murdered Carlos, her first husband.

Alberto Bravo who was Griselda’s business partner at the time, he became her husband (1970-1975). Following a disagreement, the duo had reunited in 1975 while standing in a Bogotá nightclub parking lot among millions of missing people from their cartel. Alberto and six bodyguards fell dead after Griselda suffered only a minor gunshot wound to the stomach.

Blanco moved on with his life and had another child with Darío Sepúlveda, a son named Michael Corleone Blanco. However, Dario separated from Griselda in 1983 and later kidnapped Michael when he had a dispute with the cocaine godmother over who should have custody of their child. It turned out that kidnapping her own son was a really bad thing to do since Griselda Blanco paid for Sepúlveda’s assassination in Colombia. So her three husbands died by their own hands.

Her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco, however, revealed that Griselda later became a born-again Christian and struck up a personal relationship with a certain Anna Cruz whom Michael revealed to be his daughter. However, when Anna learned of her past and who she really was, she bonded with the narcotics queen. Who wouldn’t?

Net value

While she lived and at the height of her cocaine Griselda Blanco’s cocaine distribution network in the United States brought in $80 million a month. Of course, it was very expensive and she finally paid the price. The cocaine godmother reportedly amassed $2 billion of her net worth while she was alive.