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- Manuela Escobar was the daughter of the late billionaire Pablo Escobar
- Pablo was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and a politician
- Besides, he was the founder and sole leader of the gang, Medellin Cartel
Manuela Escobar was born to one of the wealthiest families. She is the only daughter of the late drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar.
Pablo was better recognized as The King of Cocaine. He was the leader of the 1980s and 1990s most dangerous gang, the Medellin Drug Cartel.
Manuela has a lavish childhood as her father was listed as the 7th riched man by Forbes when she was 5 years old.
On one of her birthdays when she demanded a unicorn as a birthday present, Pablo created a unicorn out of a horse to fulfilled her wish.
Sadly, the horse later died of a terrible infection.
Similarly, when the family resided in the Medellin mountainside, Manuels got sick and needed to be kept warm, then her loving father reportedly burned stacks of dollar bills worth about $2 million.
Nevertheless, she lived a privileged lifestyle just for a short period as she lost her father at the age of nine.
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How much Net Worth did Pablo Escobar have at the time of his death?
Pablo Escobar was considered one of the wealthiest criminals in history. On December 2, 1993, he was unintentionally shot and killed by Colombian special forces in his residential area of Medellin, Antioquia.
He died at age 44, just a day after his 44th birthday. Police went to arrest him, but he tried to escape from his house roof as a result the situation quickly escalated to an exchange of gunfire.
Escobar had amassed a handsome amount of fortune, having an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death.
His primary source of income was the illegal drug trade.
Did Pablo Escobar’s kids inherit his money?
Manuela is not the only child of her father, Pablo Escobar. She also has an elder brother named Juan Pablo Escobar Henao.
Juna, who presently change his name to Sebastian Marroquin, presently worked as an architect in Argentina.
After Pablo’s demise, most of the money was acquired by the Colombian government.
Similarly, his assets have been seized by the authorities and converted into tourist attraction sites and hotels including his most known property called Hacienda Napoles.
The property featured a Spanish colonial house, airport, zoo, and kart-racing track, located in Puerto Triunfo, Columbia.
Further, some of the remaining assets left by the government were acquired by the Medellin Drug Cartel members, and his rivals.
Where is Manuela Escobar now?
After her father’s death, Manuela flees from Columbia alongside her mother and brother and traveled to many different countries in search of their safe shelter and haven.
These included Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, and Peru before they ultimately settled for refugee in Buenos Aires in Argentina.
She also changed her name to Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos.
Manuela is also deaf as she was involved in a bomb explosion alongside her late father on January 13, 1988, that happened outside of their mansion.
She has remained largely out of the public eye.
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Posted on: Saturday, March 23 2019