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 [...]
Friday, March 13, 2009
Profiled in countless books, magazines and movies, the reclusive billionaire Griselda “The Godmother” Blanco for 5 years penned her most intimate thoughts to one man – Charles Cosby aka Michael Garcia – her young lover and partner in crime. Considered a legend in his own right and star of the hugely successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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Friday, February 6, 2009
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 [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
via Panache Report Scarface Meets New Jack City: In 1991, Charles Cosby was selling ounces of cocaine on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California. Bringing in a couple grand a week, he was living the new American Dream. Then he wrote a fan letter to “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco – immortalized in rakontur’s Cocaine Cowboys – who was [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Griselda Blanco - La Dama De La Mafia Via Revista Don Juan 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 [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
via King-Mag.com 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 [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
via King-Mag.com 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 [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
via King-Mag.com 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. [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
via King-mag.com 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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