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Frank Sinatra & The Cartel 

 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s son has sensationally claimed singer Frank Sinatra was his dad’s business partner.

Sebastian Marroquín described the legendary crooner as a ‘better cocaine dealer than singer’ in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper.

He said the American artist was one of his father’s partners in Miami.

Asked how he could be so sure of the truth of his extraordinary claims, Marroquin told respected newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo: ‘There are more singers than you can imagine that began their careers thanks to the sponsorship of drug traffickers.

‘There are no receipts, just words. I know because I was very close to my father and he and his partners always spoke about that.’

He added: ‘I can tell you that Sinatra was a better cocaine dealer than a singer. He was one of the partners of my father in Miami.
‘Drugs cartels only exist below Mexico’s border with the United States.

‘Where is the Miami cartel? Or the New York cartel? Who is the head of the Chicago or Los Angeles cartels?
‘Each kilo of cocaine that enters the United States is converted into eight with the help of poison. 

There’s a great amount of hypocrisy when it comes to drugs.’

  

Frank Sinatra’s links to the Mafia have been well-publicised, although former 007 Roger Moore insisted last year the ties were exaggerated and were rumours based on unknown visitors having their picture taken with the singer in his dressing room.

A new Woody Allen biography published this week in the States claimed Sinatra asked the Mafia to murder the film director as revenge for betraying his ex-wife Mia Farrow.

Pablo Escobar’s brother revealed in his 2009 book about the drugs trafficker that they once dined with Frank Sinatra ‘on petty cash’ during a holiday in Las Vegas.

Roberto Escobar said the dinner took place in a private room at Caesars Palace and afterwards they took a scenic helicopter tour together.

But he claimed in the book – ‘The Accountant’s Story’ – that the American friend who introduced them told Sinatra the Escobars were real estate developers.

The meeting took place before Pablo, who at the height of his career supplied about eighty per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US, became the name he is today.

‘It was an honour for us,’ Roberto said in the book.

‘When I met him I actually had goose bumps, but I had to be cool to maintain my position.

‘During dinner Pablo told Sinatra that we were going to make a helicopter tour the next day and Sinatra asked to come with us.

‘The next day Frank Sinatra became our guide as we spent about an hour and a half flying all over the area.

‘Supposedly, after Pablo became infamous our friend who had arranged this got a phone call from Sinatra.

‘I’ve been watching TV’, he said. ‘Is that Pablo Escobar the guy we met in Las Vegas?’

‘I don’t know what happened after that, but I guess Sinatra said very firmly that he didn’t want to be associated with Pablo. And until now he never has.’

Sebastian Marroquin is one of Pablo Escobar’s two children.

The drugs lord died in a shootout on a rooftop in the Colombian city of Medellin after making a phone call to his son which enabled the authorities to track his location.

Sebastian, who was 17 at the time, fled with his mum and sister to Mozambique before emigrating to Argentina where they are now based.

He apologized to the sons of victims his late father ordered assassinated during a 2009 Argentine TV documentary.

He also wrote a best-selling book called ‘Pablo Escobar: My Father’ published last year using his birth name Juan Pablo Escobar instead of the alias he adopted before going on to study architecture.

The 38-year-old maintains his dad was not killed by police as Colombian authorities say, but committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
  

*This article was originally posted on The Daily Mail. 

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Dope Flix: Pablo Escobar & Son

  
1980’s– Notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son in front of the White House Washington. 



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17 Facts About Narcos And The Drug Lord Who Inspired It All

  
1. Narcos was originally supposed to be a full-length feature film. According to Producer Eric Newman, once they started discussing how in-depth they wanted to get with the backstories of both the good and the bad characters, the team knew there would be way too much content for a movie. The story was just too good. It needed to be a series.

2. Brazilian actor Wagner Moura had to learn Spanish for the role of Pablo Escobar. He fully immersed himself in the character by taking a Spanish class at a local university and reading everything that had ever been printed about Pablo Escobar.

3. Moura also gained 40lbs to play Escobar—and even after that, he had to wear a fake stomach to really nail Escobar’s physique. Director José Padilha explained that Escobar himself was smoking marijuana all day and would literally eat everything in sight. His physical appearance needed to reflect his life of absurd luxury.

4. The production team was very specific about not depicting the drug war in just clearcut black and white, or good versus bad. Moura explicitly stated that the intention was never to make a show that depicted the “good American cops” going to a Third World country to save everyone.

5. Director Padilha admits that Goodfellas was a big inspiration for how he envisioned the final outcome of the series.

6. Since the actual Escobar documented himself so thoroughly, there were loads of photos and archived video footage to consult for costume recreation and inspiration throughout production of the show.

7. Escobar had to invest in $2,500 worth of rubber bands per month, just so he could hold all his cash together (seriously).

8. Roughly 10% of the cash Escobar kept hidden was eaten, each year, by actual rats. The total amount is in the billions. It made next to no difference to his overall wealth.

9. He even purchased a jet specifically to fly and transport his cash.

10. Escobar was making so much money so quickly that it’s been said he literally set fire to and burned a pile of $2 million to keep his daughter warm while they were on the run.

11. Escobar’s home, Hacienda Napoles, which is featured on the show, was built on 5,000 acres of land. It included a zoo, which, even after the property fell to ruins, was occupied by at least 20 hippos.

12. Escobar’s greatest fear was being extradited to the United States. He was terrified of spending the last years of his life in an American jail. He even offered to pay Colombia’s debt in an attempt to change the extradition laws—only about $10 billion.

13. By the end of the 1980s, Escobar was in control and supplying 80% of the world’s cocaine. Approximately 4 out of 5 Americans doing cocaine were snorting lines supplied directly by Escobar.

14. In 1989, Escobar was listed as the 7th richest man in the entire world.

15. Escobar was directly responsible for upwards of 4,000 deaths, including 200 judges, 1,000 police workers, journalists, and government officials.

16. At the same time, Escobar spent millions on renovating parks, schools, stadiums, and hospitals throughout Colombia. That’s how he got his nickname “Robin Hood.”

17. Escobar’s son (also portrayed on the show) changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar to Sebastián Marroquín and wrote a book about his father. As far as his father’s legacy goes, Morroquîn’s says that Escobar was “very far from being a hero—I always say if someone reads my book and wants to be Pablo Escobar, then I did a bad job.” 

Source | Thought Catalog