Who's 'Griselda?' New Netflix series with Sofia Vergara as female drug kingpin

The Netflix limited series starring Sofia Vergara as the late female drug trafficker Griselda Blanco relives a turbulent part of Miami’s and Colombia’s histories.

The late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar once said, “The only man I was ever afraid of was a woman named Griselda Blanco.”

That quote immediately sets the tone of “Griselda,” a highly anticipated limited series premiering Thursday on Netflix.

Created by “Narcos” and "Narcos: Mexico" producers Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard and Eric Newman and “Justified” producer Ingrid Escajeda, the six-part drama series chronicles the epic rise and fall of Griselda Blanco, played by Emmy-nominated comedy actor Sofía Vergara.

Nicknamed “The Godmother” and “Black Widow,” Blanco used her lethal blend of natural charisma and unsuspected savagery to amass a vast empire as a cocaine trafficker between Colombia and Miami and become a central figure in the violent Miami drug wars of the 1970s and ’80s.

The limited series has been generating headlines of a different sort in the last few days, after Blanco's only surviving son, Michael Corleone Blanco, and his wife, Marie, filed a suit in Florida's Miami-Dade County against Vergara, Netflix and others involved in the project for using the unauthorized “image, likeness and/or identity” of family members, according to the lawsuit obtained by NBC News and reported on Today.com.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/sofia-vergara-griselda-blanco-netflix-series-rcna135266

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