From Thursday January 25, 2024is available on Netflix an eagerly awaited novelty, Griselda, played by Sofia Vergara. The official synopsis remains available from the streaming platform, allowing us to immediately have an idea of what we will witness: “After escaping from Medellin to Miami with her three young children and a kilo of cocaine, Griselda Blanco becomes the ruthless boss of a prosperous drug empire.” Even before it aired, she was sued against the entertainment giant by the son of the (real) protagonist, Sepulveda Blanco. The accusation is that of having created the series, also using “private narratives” between Griselda and her family, without having obtained official consent.
The story of Griselda Blanco
News that only fuels (and also advertises) a miniseries that aims to tell the story of Griselda Blanco. The miniseries was created by the same creators of Narcos — Doug Miro, Andrés Baiz and Carlo Bernard — and tells the life and crimes of the woman who was defined as “the drug lord from the 60s to the 80s”. One of her nicknames was “the godmother of cocaine.” In a short time she managed to create one of the largest networks for importing drugs from Colombia into the United States. She was then sold in large cities, from Miami to New York, without forgetting California. According to what emerged from the investigations, Griselda entered the United States in 1964 as an immigrant and a few years later, in 1975, she was wanted for drug-related charges. She returns to Colombia to avoid trouble with the law but a few years later, in the late 1970s, she returns to America and continues to become an increasingly bigger name in the drug trade. In the early 1980s, she became such a prominent name in the industry that she managed to earn over 80 million dollars… per month. She was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But even behind bars, she was able to continue to control her enormous drug empire for a long period of time. Playing the difficult role of Griselda Blanco for Netflix is Sofia Vergara.
Who is Sofia Vergara, the actress who plays Griselda Blanco
Her full name at the registry office is Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara. Born in 1972, she achieved international fame mainly thanks to the role of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the sitcom “Modern Family”. The TV series lasted from 2009 until 2020 and, thanks to his irresistible interpretation, was nominated for four Golden Globe and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Furthermore, it was by taking on the role of Gloria that she rose to prominence as one of the highest paid actresses in the world. Born into a Catholic family, her mother was a housewife, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher. She has five brothers and started studying to become a dentist but decided to abandon her studies a few months before graduating to pursue the numerous opportunities that were opening up for her in the world of fashion and entertainment. In 1998, his older brother Rafael was killed in Colombia during an attempted kidnapping. Not wanting to be involved in the riots that led to the murder, she decided to emigrate to the United States, starting to live in Miami, Florida. After being noticed and discovered by a photographer while walking on the beach, at just 17 years old she Sofia Vergara was chosen for a Pepsi commercial broadcast on Latin American television networks. As mentioned before her, in July 2012, just as she was busy filming “Modern Family,” she was listed by Forbes as her highest paid woman on American television with something like $19 million in compensation in the previous twelve months. In addition to appearing among the rankings of the most beautiful women, she also became one of the most influential Latin women in Hollywood in 2015 he had his star on the Walk of Fame, to definitively establish its enormous response. Also according to Forbes, in 2015 his annual income had risen to 28.5 million euros a year. At the end of the great success of Modern Family, Sofia Vergara lent her voice for some episodes of Family Guy and the Simpsons, accepting, in 2020, the role of judge on the program “America’s Got Talent” alongside Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell. From her debut in the 15th edition of the talent show, she was confirmed in the following years until the most recent – the 18th – broadcast from May to September 2023 on NBC.
The private life of Sofia Vergara
At a very young age, Sofia Vergara married her high school boyfriend, Joe Gonzalez. They had a son, Manolo, born in Colombia on September 16, 1991. She was only 18 years old at the time. They divorced just two years later. She knew Nick Loeb and announced their engagement in 2012. But it was canceled shortly after, in 2014, by Vergara herself. Also that year, on Christmas Eve, the actress and model announced her official engagement with Joe Manganiello, actor in True Blood, with whom she had been dating for 6 months. The following year, on September 21, 2015, they got married. Eight years later, on July 17, 2023 Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello they surprised everyone by announcing that they had separated and revealing that they wanted to divorce after seven years of marriage. The news was unexpected and only in recent days, on the occasion of the release of “Griselda”, the actress wanted to clarify the reasons that led to the end of the love story of one of the most beautiful couples in showbusiness: “The my marriage broke up because my husband was younger. He wanted to have kids and I didn’t want to be an old mom. I respect anyone who does it, but he’s not for me anymore.” The age difference between the two is 4 years. Today Sofia is 51 years old, Joe Manganiello, however, is 47. Vergara also shared with the public a difficult moment in her life linked to her health. When she was just 28 years old, in 2000, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She had it removed and underwent radioiodine therapy, making a full recovery. She has since taken medications to prevent hypothyroidism.