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Finally, Blanco’s third husband, Darío Sepúlveda – played by Alberto Guerra in the series – was also killed on her orders after he left the United States for Colombia, taking their son ...
While plenty of screen-time is dedicated to Blanco's brutal criminal actions, Griselda also explores her personal motivations, rooting much of her character in her relationship with her four sons ...
Blanco was caught and sent to prison, while her children were targeted by their enemies. In the series finale, Blanco finds out that her three eldest sons had been killed while she was in prison.
Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north coast.She and her mother, Ana Restrepo, [7] moved south to Medellín when she was three years old; this exposed her to a criminal lifestyle at an impressionable age, as Medellín was enduring years of its own socioeconomic, social and political troubles.
Jorge Ayala is said to have killed 11 members of Luis Mejia's gang in New York City during the summer of 1981 as well as Mejia's father, Octavio Mejia, in Miami that same year. [19] Ayala once told state prosecutors that in 1981 he accepted a $50,000 payment for killing a man for Blanco while her then-3-year-old son, Michael, was in the room. [21]
While in prison, Griselda (in the show) learns that her three older sons were killed in three different coordinated hits. Andreu confirmed to TODAY.com that her three older sons were killed.
The Godmother: Griselda Blanco: August 3, 2012: Blanco was a Colombian-born drug baroness who had been involved in a life of crime since her early teens. She made her way to the United States in the mid-1970s, along with her husband and four sons, first settling in New York City, then later moving to South Florida and Southern California ...
Griselda brought her then-husband, Carlos Trujillo, and their three children along, and the family lived in Queens, New York, where she began her drug-running career in earnest.