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'Cocaine Cowboys' filmmakers take us inside the making of their new Netflix docuseries - from the star witness reaching out on MySpace to getting Pitbull to rap the theme song
(L-R) Sal Magluta and Willy Falcone in "Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami."Netflix
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Luis Chaparro
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'Cocaine Bear' director Elizabeth Banks shares the gory scene she cut so viewers wouldn't 'throw up' and what the child actors actually swallowed in place of the drug
Director Elizabeth Banks spoke to Insider about making the horror comedy that is one of the most an…
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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 …
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Emmett Knowlton
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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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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…
Palmer Haasch
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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…
Caralynn Matassa
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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…
Noah Hurowitz
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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…