Griselda Blanco’s Man
By, Wendy Day (www.WendyDay.com)
Charles Cosby was more than the star of Cocaine Cowboys 2. He lived that story. He lived the good life. Griselda Blanco was a notorious Columbian Drug Lord in the 1980s, known for her ruthlessness. It’s amazing that she was not only a woman who was able to keep up [...]
Charles Cosby talks with Jason “A-Town” Lavezzari in the February 2009 issue of Mids Magazine. Read the entire text article here…
1. Being only 16 and selling crack, how did it make you feel making a lot of money at such young age?
I began selling crack-cocaine at 16 years old to fit in with my peers [...]
Griselda Blanco - La Dama De La Mafia
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La leyenda de Griselda Blanco nació en un caluroso día de primavera de 1975 cuando su jet privado tocó tierra en el aeropuerto de Bogotá después de dos horas y media de vuelo desde Miami. Una caravana de negras limosinas, manejadas por un equipo de [...]
Charles Cosby’s inviting nature bears the classic sign of a salesman. He’s a skilled storyteller who speaks with a hint of hyperbole, which can occasionally trigger a “you’re being hustled” uneasiness. But Cosby’s salesman-like demeanor is understandable. It’s easy to seem outlandish when recounting the graphic tales of Griselda Blanco.
In the recently released documentary Cocaine [...]
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Charles Cosby’s Origins
Brookfield Village in the early 40s was acres of orange trees. When World War II kicked off, Southern blacks migrated to the Bay Area. They were the war workers, making munitions. Single family homes replaced the orange groves. My mom, Irma Jean Garcia, came to Cali from Texas in 1953. My mother’s [...]
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Charles Cosby Meets Griselda Blanco
I was watching the news in February 1985, and Griselda Blanco’s arrest was an endless fuckin’ loop. I was fascinated—she was a billionaire moving 2,000 kilograms of coke a month. It blew me away. I never knew of a drug dealer, much less a woman, who could make those [...]
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Charles Cosby Enters the Top of the Food Chain
Three weeks after I met Griselda, I took my first flight to New York, to meet this black dude in Harlem and broker a two million dollar deal. It was a guy who’s currently a criminal celebrity but I ain’t gonna put his name out there. [...]
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Charles Cosby and the Black Widow
Griselda’s moniker, “the Black Widow,” came about because each of her husbands, she murdered. She mated, then she killed. The business arrangements had been fucked off, or they tried to exert dominance over her, so she responded like any muthafucka in the game would. She dealt with it in [...]
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JFK Jr. and The End of Griselda and Charles’ Romance
After the confrontation, I stepped my game up. I’m doing my own thing on the side in the Bay Area, we reachin’ from LA to Seattle. She’s laying dope on me as fast as I can sell it. Time progresses. Griselda had a hitman named [...]
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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