The new Netflix drama series "Grisalda" that came out last Thursday quickly reached the first place on the list of top shows.
The series brings the life of the "godmother", the "cocaine baroness" Griselda Blanco, who is played by Sofia Vergara.
Vergara stepped into Benalco's shoes as a brutal, head-scratching drug dealer in the 1970s and 1980s in Miami.
In addition to Blanco's sales ability, she was behind dozens of murders.
"She was sociopathic. Murdered people in a frenzy. Killed anyone she didn't like, because of a debt, because of a delivery screw-up or she just didn't like the way he looked at her," Assistant US Attorney Steven Schlesinger said in a 2012 interview.
But Blanco, who was shot and killed by an unknown gunman outside a butcher shop in Medellin, Colombia, in 2012, was also the mother of four sons.
The series depicts Blanco's relationships with her children and the deadly effect the nature of her work had on them.
We won't give you a spoiler, since in the last episode of the series, just like in reality, you can see Vergara discover that her three sons, Dixon, Osvaldo and Uber - were killed.
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Three of four of Blanco's children were indeed killed, although it is less clear when and how each death occurred.
Blanco herself was arrested in 1985 on cocaine-trafficking charges after authorities tracked her down for a decade.
She served 13 years in federal prison before being transferred to Florida, where she took a plea deal.
In 2004 Blanco was deported to Colombia, and eight years later she was shot.
Blanco's three older sons worked with her in the drug business.
Two of her sons, Osvaldo and Dixon, served concurrent prison terms and were released on parole in 1992. According to the Washington Post, Osvaldo was killed in a Columbia nightclub later that year, as depicted in the Netflix series.
A Miami-Herald report on Blanco's death in 2012 noted that two of Blanco's sons had been murdered in Colombia before her death.
One was Osvaldo, who died in 1992, and the other was apparently Uber, as Dixon was reportedly still alive at the time.
In an interview with the Mirror in 2020, Blanco's youngest son, Michael Corleone, said his three older brothers were murdered, suggesting that Dixon was killed sometime between 2012 and 2020.
Blanco's youngest son, Michael Corleone, chooses not to hide from the public eye.
Michael, then a young boy, was present when his father Dario Sepulveda (Blanco's third husband) was murdered by men in police uniforms in Medellin, Colombia, in 1983.
According to various reports, Sepulveda took Michael and fled to Colombia to protect him from Blanco;
Associates of Blanco, who reunited with Michael in Miami after Sepulveda's death, claimed she was responsible for orchestrating the murder, although she was never charged.
When Blanco was arrested two years later, followed by her three older sons, Michael was six years old.
In a 2008 interview, Michael, who then ran a hip-hop label, said he was raised by a series of legal guardians after Blanco went to prison.
"I rarely met my mother, since I was 12 years old we talked about going back and living together. It was hell to hug her through the bars."
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In 2011, Michael was arrested for cocaine trafficking offences.
He was under arrest while his mother was murdered.
Today Michael lives in Miami with his three children.
He starred in a VH1 reality show that followed people whose family members were connected to famous drug cartels.
In an interview for the premiere episode, he said that he decided to leave the family business as soon as he learned of his mother's death.
"At that exact moment, I said to myself, 'What kind of world did I grow up in that my whole family died?'
My brothers are dead, my father and my mother. I don't want any more in this life because I don't want my children to have a generational connection to it. It's a curse I was born into. I realized that all the money in the world is not worth it."
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Michael leads a pretty flashy life, he owns a clothing brand and he even released a personal biography: "My mother, the godmother and the true story of Michael Corleone Blanco".
Michael filed a lawsuit against Netflix in an attempt to prevent its distribution.
According to him, the creators used his "private artistic literary work" without permission or credit, which created "irreparable damage".
According to Michael, he has talked many times with the creators of the series over the years and according to him the series relies on the anecdotes and materials he provided but he did not receive proper compensation for them.
He is seeking at least $50,000 in damages.
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