![]() Taylor Swift sports a whole host of glitzy outfits as she takes to the stage for the latest show amid her Eras Tour in Massachusetts Kesha, 36, is radiant wearing a figure-hugging white gown as she attends a curated art exhibition in celebration of new album Gag Order Christian de Berdouare, a chicken restaurant owner, who bought Escobar's former Miami mansion in 2014 for $10million, believes there could be hidden treasure stashed inside the property. In 2009, $8 million (£5 million) had been discovered at a hidden complex built in the jungle, where there had been cocaine factories. He owned luxury cars, planes and even two submarines at one point. Last year a Colombian farmer was reported to have found $600 million of Escobar's money buried in a field near Medellin after digging up the land to start a palm oil plantation. He also had to buy a new plane because the one he used to bring money over was too small to hold so much cash. Escobar reportedly wrote off 10 per cent of his profits per year, $250 million per month, because it was being damaged by water, eaten by rats, or otherwise destroyed. His nickname was Robin Hood after he gave out money to the poor and built housing for the homeless. ![]() He apparently once set fire to $2 million in order to keep his daughter warm. Escobar had to spend $2,500 a month, about £1,900, on rubber bands, to keep his notes in order. In 1989, he was the Forbes seventh richest man in the world. By the mid-1980s, Pablo Escobar's cartel was bringing in $420m a week or nearly $22 billion a year 'There's no chance I could hate my father. because I did not know exactly what he did.' Giraffe's, elephants, motorcycles, a lot of things to do and a lot of money to spend,' Juan Pablo told 60 Minutes. ĭespite having to change his name and flee Colombia when his famous father died and his cocaine empire collapsed in 1993, Mr Marroquin says he loves and admires his dad. He grew up living in lavish homes with animals such as elephants and zebras roaming his backyard. The eldest Escobar son has previously said living with the drug kingpin meant his childhood was like 'Disneyland'. 'It is clear that at some point the US decided to buy cocaine from Pablo Escobar and use their services to fund the anti-communist struggle in Central America,' he told SunOnline'. The book, 'Pablo Escobar, In Fraganti', which means 'Red Handed', is his second and will unveil the new revelations. Mr Marroquin said US officials were buying cocaine from Escobar to fund the country's fight against communism. In the interview ahead of the launch of his book, he also told SunOnline the US government was in on the drug smuggling. Having escaped many attempts on his life, Pablo Escobar finally died at what was though to be the hands of the Colombian National Police on December 2, 1993. It wasn't until the ambitious crime lord made a run for the country's parliament that he came to the national attention, a decision his son thinks led to his downfall. While later he would become famous for starting wars, ordering thousands of murders and even bombing an airplane, he was called Colombia's 'Robin Hood' early on for giving away money to the poor. Initially, while operating out of the depths of his home country's jungles, his large operations flew under the radar. 'My father always told me the shot that would take his life would stick,' he said.įrom a poor family in the town of Medellin, in Colombia's north-east, Escobar grew up to become the world's most wanted man.Īt the height of his drug cartel's trafficking of cocaine to Miami, Escobar was raking in close to $420 million a week. ![]() Mr Marroquin, who changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, told SunOnline his father shot himself in the head on the rooftop 23 years ago, something he had apparently always planned to do. Juan Pablo Escobar (left), the son of Colombian drug boss Pablo Escobar (right) says he loves his father despite his reign of crime and terror through the South American nation ![]()
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