Category: Interviews

Flirty Text Messages Between Actress And Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Revealed

 

Mexican actress Kate del Castillo caught the attention of the convicted drug lord after she sent a boozy, ill conceived tweet back in 2012.

In a tweet, she told Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán:

‘Wouldn’t it be cool if you started trafficking with the good? Come on senor, you would be the hero of heroes. Let’s traffic with love.’

Her public admiration for Guzman caught his attention and one of his attorneys reached out to her to requesting a meeting.

A mutual admiration flourished when the drug lord offered del Castillo the rights to his life story.

But things became more intimate when the star was given a blackberry by Guzman’s people so he could ‘hear from her directly’.

At this point Guzman had escaped from the maximum security Altiplano prison, something del Castillo said she was ‘celebrating over’.

In September 2015, Guzman wrote that he would love for her to spend a day with him at a near by ranch and added:

‘Amiga, if you’ll bring the wine, I’ll also drink yours. . . . I’m not a drinker, but your presence will be a lovely thing and I very much want to get to know you and become very good friends. You are the best in this world. . . . I will take care of you more than I do my own eyes.’

In an in-depth interview with the actress with New Yorker, del Castillo revealed her reply:

‘It moves me so much that you say you’ll take care of me—nobody has ever taken care of me, thank you! And I’ll be free next weekend!’

He later wrote:

‘I’m not a drinker, but with you I’ll drink to the feeling of being together. Thanks so much for being such a fine person. How beautiful you are, amiga, in every way.’

The sensational meeting took place a month later deep in the Mexican jungle.

Guzman was captured as a result of his meeting with the sexy star and Hollywood actor Sean Penn. Penn, who tagged along to interview the famed drug lord for the now defunct Rolling Stones article, now says he regrets the interview.

The Woman Who Inspired “Orange Is The New Black” Talks Prison

 

Piper Kerman’s number one goal is to reduce the number of people in prison.

She spent 13 months at a correctional centre in Danbury, Connecticut from February 2004. As a white, middle-class prisoner, Kerman quickly became aware of the ways the prison system fails Americans – but particularly poor Americans, and people of colour. Since her stint behind bars, she’s become a vocal advocate for prisoners rights.

She’s been on the board of the Women’s Prison Association for six years and teaches non-fiction writing in two prisons in Ohio. And in a move that brought her story to prominence, she also wrote a memoir that served as the inspiration for hugely popular Netflix show Orange Is The New Black.

  

Check out BuzzFeed News for an informative sit down with Piper Kerman and see what she wants people to know about prison.

Hoax Alert: Obama Did NOT Pardon BMF’s Big Meech 


To the dismay of many that were hoping for an early release of Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory, it looks like the rumors of that happening were all a hoax put out by a particular website to get more views. The thirst is real!

According to Lead Stories, President Obama did NOT grant “Meech” a pardon – or at least as of yet.

Here is the gist:

A fake story trending on social media purports that President Obama has pardoned “Big Meech” Demetrius Flenory and that the “Black Mafia Family” founder will be released from a federal prison in March.

It is a hoax story intended to lure unsuspecting readers to create huge traffic for a fake news website, Lead Stories can confirm.

The report does correctly (sort of) say that Flenory, 47, wrote a jailhouse letter asking Obama to pardon him from his drug trafficking convictions. But it was a letter written from prison in 2013, and not recently as the report stated.

Flenory is serving a 30-year sentence in the U.S. Penitentiary at Lompoc, California, a medium security prison. He is scheduled for release in 2032.

Below is an actual copy of the handwritten letter written by Big Meech back in 2013.

While I am sure the Black Mafia leader still shares the same sentiments as expressed in this letter, there is no evidence that he has publicly reached out to the President again since this letter was written.

Check out my story ‘Big Meech Asks For Pardon‘ on Gorilla Convict for more details about the letter.

A handwritten letter written to President Obama by ‘Big Meech’ back in 2013

The story quickly grew legs and set the internet ablaze with many believing that the Black Mafia Family boss would be released by the end of the month.

Obama still has a few months left in the White House, and he has been very hands on with inmate rehabilitation and justice reform agendas. Could there still be a possibility for him to sign the big boss out of the clink?

Hey- if Donald Trump can possibly be our new president, then any and all things are possible.

I guess the (crime) world will just have to wait and see…

Lead Stories’ Trendolizer constantly scours social nets for trending hoaxes so that we may better inform you. Remember, just because it is trending, doesn’t mean it’s true.