Colombian drug dealer and folk hero Griselda Blanco Restrepo was BOTD in 1943. Born in Cartagena, she was raised in poverty in Medellín and sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. She met her first husband Carlos Trujillo when she was 13,m. After leaving her family home at 19, she lived with Trujillo, having three children together over the next decade and supporting the family via theft, sex work and selling marijuana. After their divorce, she moved to New York with her children. With her second husband Alberto Bravo, she became a cocaine smuggler for the Medellín drug cartel, until federal drugs charges in 1975 prompted their return to Colombia. She relocated to Miami in the late 1970s, and became a key figure in the Miami drug wars, earning the nickname “The Godmother of Crime”. She married her third husband Darío Sepúlveda, with whom she had a son, named Michael Corleone in tribute to Al Pacino’s character in the Godfather films. She is thought to be responsible for the assassinations of hundreds of her rivals, including the murders of all three of her husbands. In 1985, she was found guilty of conspiracy to manufacture, import and distribute cocaine, and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. While in prison, she was found guilty of three additional accounts of murder and given a concurrent 20 year sentence. Granted a compassionate release in 2004 on the grounds of poor health, she was deported to Colombia. Blanco had relationships with men and women throughout her life, before becoming a born-again Christian in her later years. She was assassinated in Medellín in 2012, aged 69. A polarising figure in Colombia even after her death, she has been condemned as a ruthless criminal and revered as a folk hero and feminist/queer icon. The subject of innumerable documentaries, she has been portrayed onscreen by actresses Luces Velásquez, Ana Serradilla, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sofia Vergara, and is referenced frequently in the lyrics of rapper Nicki Minaj.