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How the 'Cocaine Cowboys' filmmakers have built a career interviewing Miami's most notorious gangsters

Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman made the real "Scarface" with the 2006 documentary "Cocaine Cowboy…

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The catchy theme song for 'Cocaine Cowboys,' a show about Miami's biggest drug traffickers, is actually a Pitbull track that was recorded years ago

"Blood Sport" by Pitbull, now the "Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami" theme song, was originally …

Jason Guerrasio   


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Adam McKay and the director of 'Cocaine Cowboys' said history could repeat itself for the 2020 presidential election

McKay and Billy Corben, both behind the HBO doc '537 Votes,' told Insider how Trump's second term c…

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The cocaine trade is booming, and smugglers have their eyes on a new market

According to a Sinaloa Cartel operator, a kilo of cocaine in Europe is worth double what it goes fo…

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'Cocaine Cowboys' is being made into a play after Hollywood failed for almost a decade to adapt it for TV

A year after "Cocaine Cowboys" hit theaters and gradually became a bootleg sensation - getting in t…

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How the 'Cocaine Cowboys' filmmakers built a career interviewing Miami's most notorious gangsters

That has made Corben and Spellman's job of landing interviews with shady characters much easier. A …

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How the 'Cocaine Cowboys' director used the doping scandal that brought down Alex Rodriguez to create a comedic documentary about Miami gangsters

Bosch weaves a stranger-than-fiction tale in "Screwball" of his ascent to becoming pro baseball's g…

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'Cocaine Cowboys:' Some Google employees allegedly threw a party in 2015 with 'controlled substances' after a successful self-driving car demo

In 2015, after successfully completely a self-driving demo with a blind man in the passenger seat, …

Sean Wolfe   


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Former Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy reportedly arrested on a charge of felony drug possession

Hardy reportedly told police that the substance did not belong to him. According to the police, Har…

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Everyone wants to cash in on Griselda Blanco. Most of all, her son.

Michael Corleone Blanco and "Cocaine Cowboys" director Billy Corben talk to Business Insider about …

Jason Guerrasio   


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Griselda Blanco's only surviving son watched the Netflix series about her and thinks his family 'deserved a little more'

Michael Corleone Blanco said in a podcast hosted by the director of "Cocaine Cowboys" that one part…

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Who is Charles Cosby, the man Griselda Blanco dated while in prison?

Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco's life is explored in the Netflix miniseries "Griselda," but th…

Olivia Singh   


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What happened to the real Griselda Blanco?

"Griselda" on Netflix is a retelling of the story of Griselda Blanco's real life. Here's what you n…

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Vanilla Ice says he was friends with Pablo Escobar but had 'no idea' what he did for a living

In a separate interview with TMZ, the rapper said he only realized something was off when he was qu…

Amanda Goh   


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Griselda Blanco's family settles lawsuit against Netflix and Sofia Vergara

Blanco's last surviving son brought the case against the streamer in January in an attempt to block…

Eve Crosbie   


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What happened to Griselda Blanco's sons?

Netflix's "Griselda," starring Sofia Vergara, follows Griselda Blanco's rise to power as the "godmo…

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The night the Lord of the Skies got away

In 1985, US agents had a chance to stop Mexico's top drug lord. Years later, evidence from that nig…

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Miami spent years partying on a crypto-fueled high. I went to check out the brutal comedown.

Miami was party central during the pandemic as tech bros and crypto kings flocked to Florida. Now i…

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