Category: Hollywood Crime

Actress Jennifer Lopez To Star In HBO Film About Drug Lord Griselda Blanco

According to news reports everywhere, HBO is developing a film about notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco to be played by Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez to star as Griselda Blanco in new HBO production. Photo: TMZ
Deadline reports:

The film, from Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and LBI Entertainment, focuses on the rise and fall of Griselda Blanco (Lopez), the drug lord known as “The Cocaine Godmother” who revolutionized the U.S. drug trade during the 1970s and 1980s and became the most powerful female cartel member of all time.

Lopez will executive produce with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas via Nuyorican Productions. Benny Medina also will executive produce with Julie Yorn and Rick Yorn for LBI Entertainment. Alex Pettyfer, Nuyorican Productions’ Priscilla Porianda and LBI Entertainment’s Patrick Walmsley will co-executive produce.

“I’ve been fascinated by the life of this corrupt and complicated woman for many years,” said Lopez. “The idea of teaming with HBO felt like the perfect fit for finally bringing Griselda’s story to life.”

Lopez stars in NBC drama Shades of Blue, recently renewed for a second season, which she executive produces with Goldsmith-Thomas and Medina. Nuyorican Productions’ other credits include the Freeform series The Fosters and the Universal movie The Boy Next Door.

Will YOU be watching? I think Jennifer Lopez is a great actress and will do a fantastic job as the “Cocaine Godmother.” 

Some critics don’t seem to think “Jenny from the Block” has enough “street cred” to execute such a powerful role. Griselda Blanco was small in stature but she was BIG in her position. Another famous Latina name thrown into the hat of potentials to fill the role was Rosie Perez, whom I can totally see nailing the role as well. Or Sophia Vegara with enough makeup & weight. 

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if “JLo” can pull her Colombian accent together enough to win over the people as “thee” Godmother Griselda Blanco. One thing is for sure, she’s got some big shoes to fill. I can’t wait to see how this turns out! 

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Rumor Control: Rapper Drama Wasn’t Gonna Blow Up Phaedra Parks With A Bomb, His Mixtape Is “Bomb And ‘Bout To Blow Up”

In today’s “what’s going on here” news…

TMZ is reporting the real on exactly what happened when rapper Drama was arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks’ Atlanta office with a bomb…

Phaedra tells TMZ she considers Drama a good friend, and knew he was going to come by her office last week to drop off his new CD. The ‘Real Housewives’ star says things started going south though when Drama went to the wrong floor.

According to Phaedra … Drama demanded to see her, and when the receptionist asked him to leave — because he wasn’t in Phaedra’s office — he refused, and she called security. Here’s where it really gets messy.

We spoke to Drama’s mother, who says her son told the guard, “I have a bomb CD. It’s about to blow up.” She says the security guard followed up by asking if he had anything else about to blow up — and Drama replied, “I got that bomb ass CD in the car” … referring to a package full of CDs in his vehicle.

Bossip adds:

Phaedra says Drama was racially profiled by someone in the office who saw a black man wearing a white tee and gold teeth and got SHOOK!

Drama’s mother insists he was just speaking in his colloquial fashion and the “ignorant person” he was speaking to just didn’t understand what he meant.

The rapper was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats and his being held without bail. Phaedra is reportedly doing her best to help him out.

Something is definitely shady about this story. Sounds like “Shady Phae Phae” (as Kenya Moore calls her) is looking to build another story line or something? I guess we’ll have to wait and see….

via Rumor Control: Drama Wasn’t Gonna Blow Up Phaedra Parks With A Bomb, His Mixtape Is “Bomb And ‘Bout To Blow Up” — Bossip

Witnesses Reveal New Details In The Tragic Shooting Deaths Of Reality Star Toya Wright’s Two Brothers

More details are emerging about the tragic shooting deaths of reality TV star Toya Wright’s two brothers, Rudy and Josh Johnson.

According to The Advocate:

The shooting that left two brothers of reality TV star Toya Wright dead over the weekend was preceded by a heated disturbance on a 7th Ward street, according to one neighbor.

John Kemper, 55, said the voices he heard across the street from his residence in the 2800 block of Pauger Street just after midnight Sunday morning were so loud that he peered through the window to see what was happening.

When he looked out, he said, he saw several residents of a group of brick apartment buildings on the upriver side of the street, yelling at the occupants of a black SUV.

“They were yelling down, looking at the car,” Kemper said. “There was a commotion going on.”

He said such disturbances are so common on the block that he went back into a rear room of his apartment. From inside the apartment, he then heard nine shots, he said.

Witnesses claim the murders may have been drug related…

Police have given no indication about who they think may have killed the Johnson brothers or why. But Kemper and several other neighbors said they suspected a connection to drug dealing near the brick apartment buildings.

“It be like they’re selling sno-balls over there,” one said.

That resident, like most on the block, declined to be quoted by name, citing fear of the purported drug dealers.

Kemper said he was comfortable speaking in part because he was leaving New Orleans for Chicago. He was stuffing his belongings into a minivan as he spoke Monday afternoon.