The Cocaine Godmother had her own son's father shot dead in front of him. The boy was 5.
Michael Corleone Blanco is the youngest son of Griselda Blanco, the woman who flooded Miami with cocaine and is linked to over 200 murders. She named him after the Godfather.
In 1983 his dad Dario took him to MedellΓn, away from her. Men dressed as cops stopped their car and opened fire. Little Michael ran to his father screaming. Dario was already dead.
The order came from his mother.
She once had 8 strippers killed because she thought they slept with Dario.
Michael only learned the truth at 17. His brother told him: your mom killed your dad.
All three of his older brothers were murdered. Griselda was gunned down outside a butcher shop in 2012. Michael is the last one left. He survived 7 assassination attempts as a kid.
Watch to the end for what he says about her now.
Would you forgive a mother who did this, or never speak to her again?
Follow for the parts the documentaries cut.
Your landlord is taking half your salary, the government is spending your taxes on wars, your boss is pocketing the profits you and your colleagues are laboring for, but instead of fighting them y'all want to fight immigrants and trans people because you are bootlicking cowards.
Giancarlo Esposito says his grandfather was minutes from execution until Mussolini needed him to find an opera set
"And when Mussolini came in, many, many people were opposed to him. My grandfather was responsible for all these operas"
"Now my grandfather was a drinker, he liked his alcohol, and he would drink a little too much and he'd be found in the street cursing out Mussolini"
Josh: "As one does"
Giancarlo: "As one does. And he was immediately put in jail. And over and over again, he was let out. And Mussolini would wanna see operas and of course that incensed him"
"Five minutes away from a firing line, they had marched him out and the phone call came in, 'I'm looking for Esposito. Where's Esposito? Where's Esposito?' 'Why? Why?' 'Because I wanna see Madame Butterfly and he knows where the set is'"
"And literally was saved very close to losing his life. And he delivered that set and then he and my father raced away to the resistance in the mountains and finally left Naples, that call was too close for comfort"