Overview

• Griselda Blanco, known as the 'godmother of cocaine', rose to dominate the cocaine trade in Miami in the late 1970s and '80s, amassing a personal fortune and a reputation for indiscriminate brutality.
• Blanco's ruthless tactics earned her many enemies and she was eventually arrested in 1985 on cocaine trafficking charges after a decade-long investigation.
• Three out of four of Blanco's children, who were involved in her drug business, were killed. Her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco, is her only surviving child.
• Michael Corleone Blanco is suing Netflix and Sofia Vergara over the series 'Griselda', claiming that the creators used his 'private artistic literary work' without permission or credit.
• The series 'Griselda' depicts Blanco's rise and fall, focusing on her ambition, her relationships, her increasing paranoia, and the deadly impact her line of work had on her children.