The GODMOTHER of COCAINE

She committed murder aged 11 held bisexual orgies, and killed her three husbands. Now J-Lo is playing her in a film about the ‘queenpin’ of a $1bn-a-year drugs empire

THe underworld is full of shameless braggarts, but when Griselda Blanco claimed she was ‘the baddest b**** to ever take a breath of life’, she, at least, couldn’t be accused of exaggerating. She was just 11 when she killed her first victim, another child, and she never looked back, earning a dire reputation as the most bloodthirsty drug lord — male or female — in history. The Colombian ‘queenpin’ went from slum-bred poverty to carve out an empire that stretched from her country’s cocaine capital of Medellin to Miami and New York. The matronly mother of four was linked to some 250 murders.

Her favourite possessions included a bone-china tea set that once belonged to the Queen and an altogether less regal gold-plated, emerby ald-studded submachinegun. Dubbed the ‘ Godmother of Cocaine’ and the ‘Black Widow’ (she killed her three husbands), the debauched, flashy and utterly brutal billionaire murdered without compunction — at least when she wasn’t holding bisexual orgies, forcing men and women to have sex at gunpoint, and helping to inspire the hit TV series Miami Vice.

Now, eight years after her enemies gunned her down while she was out shopping, her story is to be made into a new feature film starring Jennifer Lopez.

The actress and singer, who may also direct The Godmother and who recently played a New York stripper who robs her rich Wall Street clients in Hustlers, says she’s been ‘forever fascinated’ by the story of the ‘ notorious, ambitious, conniving, chilling’ Blanco.

Hustlers, similarly based on a true story, was hailed as a lurid tribute to female empowerment and Blanco, barely 5ft tall, was also a woman in a man’s world.

However, barring a major rewriting of history, it would be hard to imagine viewers wanting to root for the Black

Widow. For Griselda maintained her place at the top with ruthless efficiency and devilish ingenuity. She was the first to put hitmen on the back of motorcycles so that they could spray their victims with bullets and easily flee — a tactic copied by criminals across the world.

She was also the first to realise that women made better drug mules than men, as police were less likely to stop them, creating her own range of multipocketed lingerie so women could hide huge amounts of cocaine on smuggling runs.A sociopathic monster who — according to one of her prosecutors — had people murdered ‘at the drop of a hat’, she ordered her band of hired assassins, a particularly vicious gang known as Los Pistoleros, never