Her family insisted she’d become a Born Again Christian.She was tried for only three murders and spent more than a decade behind bars, still managing to run her business through her children.By the time she was released in 2004, two of her sons had been killed by rivals in Colombia, and Griselda was deported there as an illegal U. S. immigrant. Jennifer Lopez is set to become the cocaine queen as she will play Griselda Blanco in the forthcoming film called The Godmother. Born in a Colombian shanty town in 1943, she was raised in a Medellin slum by her mother, an alcoholic prostitute who beat her savagely. Why lack of SLEEP is the shattering symptom no one warns...Mother who murdered celebrity snapper's autistic son, 10, by suffocating him with a sponge had struggled to...Aspiring housewife who enjoys being a 'damsel in distress', wants an 'alpha male' to 'look after her' and is...Online calculator reveals EXACTLY how much exercise is needed to burn the calories in your favourite tipples...Fed-up homeowner wraps his neighbour's car in black CELLOPHANE after she blocks his drive for more than a...Woman, 81, wakes up after spending the night in a Russian morgue and 'being pulled back from the other...EU trade talks 'could stall over Brussels' refusal to allow British hauliers full access to work within the...JANET STREET-PORTER: Instead of worrying about young people missing out on university shouldn't we be asking...Now unions want to overhaul next year's exams: NEU demands reduced content for A-levels and GCSEs in 2021...Durham offers bursaries to students who are willing to defer entry as up to 55,000 scramble to get places at...Growing cost of A-level climbdown: Top universities demand cash to cope with influx of students and call for...Universities need £3BILLION: IFS warns of soaring costs of paying top institutions to take on more students...Gavin Williamson is 'on his last life' after his exams fiasco and will be sacked if schools reopening is...Tough teachers who predicted their pupils' GCSE results fairly will face the blame if they are too low,...Storm Ellen SAVAGES summer: 900-mile wide weatherbomb with 75mph gales hits UK whipping up 15ft waves and...Innocent father was wrongly jailed and became a local pariah after paedophile stole his ID to groom underage...Apple becomes most valuable American company EVER and worth more than $2 trillion after 60% rise in share...'This is another kick in the stomach': PC Andrew Harper's mother slams bid by two of her son's killers to...NHS paramedic, 24, who was shamed for her 'time-consuming' make-up look in a viral selfie at the height of...Premier League is hit by FOURTEEN new positive coronavirus tests at 12 pre-season camps... and clubs fear...Fresh UK quarantine fears for Croatia as daily coronavirus cases increase amid fears new rules could be...Charity sector has lost 25,000 jobs in Covid crisis with another 35,000 likely to follow as fundraising...New Zealand's High Court rules country's first lockdown was UNLAWFUL - with people wrongly forced to stay at...Ghost Town London's £5.7BILLION black hole: Taxpayers face huge bill as lost fares leave TfL £3.5bn short -...Police receive 4,000 reports of children abusing their parents during lockdown amid 25% rise in cases - as...No wonder they want to stay out of the office! And Hollywood has a poor track record when it comes to glamorising violent criminals.But if anyone doesn’t deserve such a makeover, it’s the Black Widow. Avant Pablo Escobar, il y avait Griselda Blanco, la pire baronne de la drogue que la Colombie et les États-Unis aient connu. Jennifer Lopez is the latest Hollywood star to steps into the shoes of Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco.The Jenny from the Block singer will play … This...New BTEC results chaos as board AXES plans to announce grades tomorrow with just 18 hours notice STEPHEN GLOVER: Why I fear Boris Johnson's silence on this exam fiasco heaps arrogance upon incompetence High blood pressure? Read Next: DC FanDome Trailer Teases Surprises From ‘The Batman,’ ‘Suicide Squad 2’ And More


Co-exec producers are Alex Pettyfer, Nuyorican’s Priscilla Porianda and LBI’s Patrick Walmsley.The project adds to Lopez’s growing on-screen slate — she currently stars on NBC’s drama For Nuyorican Prods., this project is the latest for Lopez’s growing company. The underworld is full of shameless braggarts, but when Griselda Blanco claimed she was ‘the baddest b**** to ever take a breath of life’, she, at least, couldn’t be accused of exaggerating.She was just 11 when she killed her first victim, another child, and she never looked back, earning a dire reputation as the most bloodthirsty drug lord — male or female — in history.The Colombian ‘queenpin’ went from slum-bred poverty to carve out an empire that stretched from her country’s cocaine capital of Medellin to Miami and New York. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The country was racked by a brutal civil war, and Blanco and other children would entertain themselves digging holes to bury the dead.Jennifer Lopez will play Griselda in an up-coming Hollywood biopic The Godmother and possible direct the feature film as wellShe became a pickpocket and a killer when, aged just 11, she helped kidnap a ten-year-old boy from a wealthy family.When they didn’t pay the ransom, she shot him dead.A year later she became a prostitute and soon met her first husband, a petty forger named Carlos Trujillo.
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