via New Times

Griselda Blanco has acquired many monikers in her 65 years. The Colombian drug dealer earned the title of “Cocaine Queen” in 1970s New York, and she became La Madrina — AKA “The Godmother” — when she moved her operations to Miami. Because of her tendency to bump off her own husbands, three in all, she has also been dubbed “Black Widow.” Blanco got busted in California in 1985, and she was subsequently convicted in federal court of conspiring to import cocaine. The conviction made the nightly news, which is how Charles Cosby, a small-time street hustler from Oakland, California, learned about her. He was gob-smacked, he says. “My drug dealing was confined to the hood,” he recounts in a telephone interview from California. “I couldn’t see beyond the ghetto. I never knew anything about the higher echelons.”

Cosby saw Blanco as a role model, someone to be emulated. In 1991, he sent a fan letter to her California prison cell, and she wrote back. The two struck up a fast correspondence friendship. Authorities wouldn’t let Cosby, then 23, meet the 51-year-old Blanco in person because, he says, he was on probation for carrying a machine gun.

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via DVD Talk

The story of Oakland, Calif.-based drug lord Charles Cosby and his tumultuous association with Griselda Blanco (the so-called “Godmother” of the Colombian cocaine trade) is the kind of stuff Hollywood screenwriters salivate over and indeed, Cosby seems highly self-aware, conscious of the seductive nature of his tale. And so Cocaine Cowboys 2 follows Cosby from his Oakland childhood up through the ranks of Griselda Blanco’s organization (including their brief, torrid affair that might just re-define your ideas of conjugal visits) and their lethal falling out, culminating in protracted legal proceedings that most definitely do not end in a conventional manner.

Through it all, the implacable Cosby — seen frequently in snapshots fondling cash, posing in front of cars or sticking his tongue down Blanco’s throat — maintains an effortless cool, embodying the very type of outlaw celebrating in rap songs, a bad-ass dude who ran the streets and got out clean…

The Miami premiere of Cocaine Cowboys 2 is Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 8:30pm. The premiere will be at the Colony Theater on 1040 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Join us for the afterparty at Bella Rose at 423 16th Street in Miami Beach (between Washington and Drexel). There will be live video-remixing of Cocaine Cowboys 2 by DJ Tom Laroc.

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This is a clip from ‘Cocaine Cowboys 2′ of the the fatal confrontation between Griselda Blanco and her husband Alberto Bravo — the person credited with Blanco’s introduction into cocaine trafficking. Alberto’s death gave rise to Blanco’s international legend — and solidified her status as cocaine’s first billionaire!

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Hello Charles,

I hope this message finds you in the best of health. I was wondering if there was anyway I could get an advance copy of Cocaine Cowboys 2 or will I have to wait until July 29th like everyone else? Im really dying to see part 2, and Im extremely interested in seeing and hearing your side of the story.

Im in awe of you and I must confess; you must have had huge balls to make the first step in contacting Griselda Blanco and ask her what she can do for you. I give you mad props. Im so happy that the Las Vegas premiere for Cocaine Cowboys 2 was a success and that you are getting so much publicity. You deserve it!

BTW you are a very handsome man, and for someone who came from nothing and became a multi-millionaire in a matter of months of meeting Griselda Blanco truly fascinates me.
Like you, I too wanted to be an attorney but my partying got in the way, so I settled for second best and became a paralegal instead, that’s been my profession for almost 23 years now. I actually do more work than the attorneys themselves, but of course they get all the money. LOL

Again, I was just wondering if I could get an advance copy of Cocaine Cowboys 2, as Im dying, and I mean literally dying, to see it. Im obsessed w/the first Cocaine Cowboys, I even downloaded it to my IPOD. Now i’m waiting for Cocaine Cowboys 2…I’m very interested in hearing more on your relationship with Griselda Blanco.

Thanks for reading.

All my love and respect,
Maria a/k/a Gypsy
The Animal Rescuer

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via East Bay Express

Oakland crack-house operator Charles Cosby became the twentysomething lover of fiftysomething Colombian cocaine queenpin Griselda Blanco after writing the then-incarcerated billionairess a fan letter that said: “I wanna rub elbows with a legend.” Mano a mano with Blanco, Brookfield Village-bred Cosby soared to Medellín-financed überhustlerdom in the early ’90s, stashing his millions in suitcases and car trunks, burying some in backyards. See his saga in Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother, a straight-to-DVD documentary due out next month from Miami-based Rakontur Productions. Magnet Releasing, part of Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, has picked up world distribution rights. At one point, Cosby narrates authentic-looking footage of cocaine, water, and baking soda boiling in a coffeepot. “The cocaine turns into a yellow gel-like liquid,” Cosby intones somberly; subtitle-instructions superimpose the stovetop. Tapwater, ice cubes: a crack-cake forms and is tipped out onto a plate: “Take a large knife or a meat cleaver or what have you and break it down into ten-dollar pieces,” Cosby instructs. Now retired from mackerdom and married with children, he describes himself as “incredibly blessed … it’s my turn to save lives.” For starters, at CharlesCosby.com he sells Cafe Press items depicting his cigar-smoking face at the center of a hundred-dollar bill, wielding a semiautomatic weapon, and pointing the weapon at viewers with the caption “Respected by a City of Killas.” Select your favorite on a shirt, notepad, messenger bag, or thong.

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