HOW PABLO ESCOBAR SPEND HIS MONEY.

a legendary Colombian drug lord and

narco

terrorist pablo escobar's name will live

on in infamy

for all time known as the king of

cocaine

he is without doubt the wealthiest

criminal in

history

amassing a 30 billion dollar 64 billion

by today's standards

fortune by the time of his death but how

did he spend it

let's find out this is how pablo

escobar spent his billions

number 15 pet hippos

what do you do if you have millions of

dollars at your disposal and you're the

notorious drug lord

pablo escobar one asset you probably

wouldn't think of

is the purchase of a small group of

hippos

escobar bought four hippopotamuses and

kept them at his illegal zoo in his

extravagant colombian estate

after escobar's death by bullet the

future of the hippos was left up in the

air

most of the captive animals were taken

away by various zoos and conservation

organizations

after the collapse of the enclosure but

the hippos were left to fend for

themselves

and have since gone on to multiply with

the government issuing and

if you can catch them you can keep them

policy the hippos continue to evade

anyone looking to cash in on these

giant animals the hippos have grown

tired of their allocated space and have

decided to stretch their unsupervised

legs

unfortunately for locals these new

pastures include the country's main

river the magdalena with warnings that

this

mixing of humans and hippos will have

deadly results

the government's leaning more and more

towards just killing these magnificent

animals if they cannot be controlled if

they were to meet their maker through

the bullet of a gun

the parallels with the death of their

original owner would be almost

poetic like this video smash the

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number 14 hacienda napoles

one of the biggest purchases anyone will

ever make in their lifetime

is the purchase of their home most of us

may only ever need to do it once

and when we do we go for a relatively

modest house

but when you have as much money as pablo

escobar you can rest assured that this

is gonna be one

flashy house far from disappointing

expectations the drug lord resided in a

20 kilometer squared main estate known

as

hacienda napoles 150 kilometers east of

medellin and 249 kilometers northwest of

pagoda this was no regular estate as it

included everything from a spanish

colonial house

a sculpture park and a complete zoo

decked out with the most extravagant of

animals

most of us dream of having more than one

bathroom let alone all of that

and if you thought that was the end of

the list then you are gravely mistaken

a private airport a bowl ring and even a

cart

racing track could be found once you

enter through the gates of this

paradisa land of pleasure and leisure

i mean this home is tony stark levels of

kitted out

even the entrance gate is something to

be truly marveled at

get it marveled as it has one of

escobar's first

smuggling planes fixed atop talk about

hiding in plain sight

number 13.

pablo escobar actually went to prison

and rather than being chased into a

blocked off alleyway and being thrown

handcuffed into the back of a police car

the king of cocaine

actually handed himself in who would

have thought it while this might sound

like a bizarre decision to make

the prison he agreed to was far from the

most ordinary of jails

this place was unlike any jail you have

ever heard of

or seen the cathedral was the place

decided upon after negotiations between

escobar and the government concluded

with the custom-built prison being

far from somewhere you might see on the

news this place was truly extraordinary

decked out with a sauna a pool a

dancehall

billiards room and a sports field to say

escobar lived in luxury during his short

stint behind bars

would be an understatement escobar's

jail was 100 times

nicer than most people's houses i'd pay

to stay in a place like this

during his stay escobar even hosted

multiple wedding ceremonies

binged on all kinds of luxurious foods

whilst in the arms of beautiful women

and even had the colombian national

football team play a game

on his private patch doesn't exactly

sound like guantanamo bay

does it we'd argue it barely counts as

jail at all

actually sounds like quite a lavish life

when the government decided that

enough was enough as it became

increasingly obvious that the drug lord

was still conducting his business

efficiently behind bars they decided to

end his comfy stay

we have to admit that's probably for the

best but while only 13 months into his

already soft

five-year sentence they arrived at the

prison to find

their inmate had already left number

12 miami house 15.9 million dollars

before pablo escobar became one of the

most hunted men in the united states

thanks to an array of drug smuggling

charges

he happily spent time in a large and

relaxing home in miami florida

most people in this day and age old

sadly never owned one home

let alone the abundance that pablo

escobar has to his name

with the property costing the colombian

765

5500 in 1980 the 7

336 square foot pastel pink mansion

had everything from a manicured

courtyard custom lighting and multi-car

garage

as well as a stunning view of the sun

setting over the sea

with florida's floor-to-ceiling glass

walls wrap around terraces

expansive lunge decks outdoor kitchen

and infinity pool and

countless palm trees all decorating the

property and making its notorious owner

feel as comfortable as possible

it's safe to say that escobar has a

taste for the finer things in life

and to be fair so would we if we could

afford it i suppose at least he wasn't

spending his bloodstained money on

ugly luxuries if we could take any

consolation from his splurge

seized in 1987 by u.s marshals its

closure marked the beginning of the end

for the colombian even if that wouldn't

come for another six

years but boy oh boy did it come

number 11 abandoned caribbean

house the dark past of pablo escobar

still lives on in the various homes he

bought with the money he earned from all

of his drug dealings

if you're gonna have a party home as one

of the world's biggest cocaine dealers

then choosing the caribbean isn't a bad

place to settle

this particular archipelago of small

islands in the caribbean

was the scene of countless extravagant

parties held by the medellin cartel

the gem on the crown of this party area

is probably the secret party home on la

is la grande which

included a mansion waterfront apartments

a palm court

enormous swimming pool and a helicopter

landing pad

for an easy entrance and swift exit they

certainly weren't lacking space as the

complex had over 300 guest rooms

it wouldn't be attached to pablo escobar

if it wasn't screaming wealth

and with gold shower heads in all of the

bathrooms you can be sure

that box is well and truly checked i

know he was obviously a bad guy but

going to a party here must have been

insane although i got some struggle to

relax

you know just in case they got too

intoxicated and did something

accidentally disrespectful to make him

end up in a body bag

number 10 norman's k

island shipping cocaine into the united

states is no easy thing to do

even for escobar's cartel the focal

point of this tricky operation was pablo

escobar's

norman's k island which was used as the

drug running point for the cartel when

reaching out to their american market

that's right he owns an island a whole

island just when you thought his

spending could not get

more lavish and ridiculous the man goes

and buys an entire island for himself

maybe the finale of loss would have made

more sense if it turned out that the

island they were on was escobar's

the island wasn't just used for business

purposes however with the famous drug

smuggler carlos letter using the

location to host

countless parties letter was also the

man in charge of smuggling escobar's

narcotics into the us

with the island's 3 300 foot airstrip

armed guards vicious attack dogs and

their own personal radar system to keep

a lookout for any suspicious aircraft

trying to land

all helping to smooth over operations

couple this paranoia of an imminent

arrest with the copious amounts of

cocaine snorted and i'm sure they were

more than on

edge at times when off duty the island

provided its occupants with

plenty of ways to relax with its own

nightclub hotel

swimming pool private dock and countless

gorgeous

sandy beaches to choose from visiting

here in its heyday was certainly a load

of fun

being a criminal almost sounds idyllic

if it wasn't for the constant fear of

arrest and threat of being killed by

friend or foe number 9

mk3669x

plane when you're smuggling in countless

kilos of the

obviously illegal drug cocaine having a

plane with the most hold capacity is

essential to make your extremely risky

trips even more worthwhile

in steps the mk3669x

plane which was a particular favorite of

escobar's cartel

if you roam around escobar's old

stomping grounds you'll see various of

these crafts rotting away

and being consumed by father time if you

saw one of these flying in from overseas

in the 80s then you were probably

witnessing a crime

firsthand the mk-3669x wasn't the only

plane in escobar's possession with the

seventh richest man in the world having

a whole collection of pricey aircrafts

such as the dc-3 which costs 200

000 as well as several tbm 700s which

amounted to 1.3 million dollars

each damn escobar owned so many planes

he could have just gone down the

straight and arrow and opened his own

airport

there escobar perhaps maybe we could

take a trip on an air escobar plane and

then crash land on

escobar island number eight

la purana boat and jet ski

pablo escobar might be known for his

grand spending and his love of the finer

things in life which are made available

to him due to his infamous criminal

activity

however one of his vehicles isn't

exactly the flashy kind we've come to

expect but

it played a crucial role a diminutive

private speedboat

named la purana this pacey little craft

was very useful in transferring escobar

from boat to land and vice versa but its

use wasn't just for

convenience the speed of his private

boat meant that he could go a lot faster

than some of the smaller police boats

that would have been deployed to chase

down the criminal

the speedboat is still around collecting

mold and dust as it enjoys retirement on

escobar's

equally rotting estate existing as a

symbol of a bygone era

while it may be a small and somewhat

modest little vehicle

this thing is steeped in a lot of

history

number seven car collection

you wouldn't associate pablo escobar

with low-key vehicles

you would probably rather expect him to

be constantly rolling around in one of

the most luxurious limousines in

vehicles known to man

all year round in rolls the simcoe 1000

with this small rear-engined car being a

favorite of escobars

i guess you can't be driving around

looking flashy constantly if you want to

avoid bringing some extra police heat on

you

the simcoe 1000 was a hugely popular

vehicle in france with the car being

manufactured from 1961 to 1978

154 282 of these cars were made in 1962

in france alone with a surprisingly

spacious interior

there was even space for a wheel in the

front luggage compartment

you know just in case the original was

burst by a stray bullet perhaps

if he wasn't you know pablo escobar this

kind of collection would make him the

perfect guest on jerry seinfeld's

comedians in cars getting coffee but you

know he is pablo escobar so

number six military plane

while there's no doubt that pablo

escobar loved to flaunt his wealth as

well as give back to the community

a lot of his purchases were intelligent

buys which contributed to the success of

his drug

empire one vehicle which certainly

helped smooth over operations and gave

his illegal dealings a more secretive

edge

was his small collection of military

aircraft they're still one of these

military aircraft held by the brazilian

government and left on display for

interested fans of the colombian's

legacy

amazingly the plane has been left in the

exact position escobar landed it all

those years ago

regardless of if this is true talk about

one way to pique the interest of fans

even more number five

ereficio monaco escobar lived a life of

luxury with countless estates and

homes scattered across the land so it

should come as no surprise that he also

had a residence in the capital of

columbia medellin

the location of the house was no doubt

handy for the school run

and with the conducting of business but

the luxury home in the center of the

city

had more than a few pleasant perks

within its walls

as well as his wife and son staying in

one of the 12 apartments the move which

was made to throw off potential

kidnappers

the building had everything from two

swimming pools a tennis court a panic

room

vault and 34 car parking spaces

seems a little excessive if you ask me

but i doubt anyone's going to be telling

pablo that

once called the monaco building the home

was of course

the target for pablo's many enemies a

car bomb

even targeted the building in january

1988 right at the beginning of a deadly

rivalry between the medellin and cali

drug cartels

it is now demolished but when it was

around it was a great

tourist hot spot for nosy foreigners who

wanted to catch a glimpse of the

blood-soaked past

pablo even met his maker via bullet

whilst on one of the rooftops

sounds eerie number four

rolex watch when you're the head of one

of the world's

largest and most successful drug cartels

staying on time is a matter of life

and death keeping in the know of when a

shipment is being delivered or when a

meeting is meant to take place is

crucial to the running of a business

with that being said there is no

rationalization for the purchase of this

ridiculously extravagant timepiece a

rolex wristwatch

the classic yellow gold rolex day day

owned by escobar

is as fancy as you would imagine a watch

belonging to a man who ran a drug cartel

which brought in over 60 million dollars

in profits

every single day with hundreds of

miniature diamonds

the one-of-a-kind timepiece certainly

makes a statement when flashed about on

arrest

the rolex costs an estimated 70 thousand

dollars but was only sold for 8

500. perhaps its dark and bloodied pass

doesn't exactly help it at auction

number three casa malka

mansion being the outlaw that pablo

escobar is

it should come as no surprise that he

had many locations scattered around

south america which were the perfect

places to escape from the watchful eye

of the american government

whilst the list of hideouts is numerous

one which certainly stands out is

casa malka found within the mexican

resort of tulum

casa malka looks like the type of place

you would expect tony montana to live

when escobar hit out here in the late

80s the mansion was consumed with nature

and was not nearly as much of a tourist

hot spot as it is today

with overgrown trees preventing nosy

government agents spotting escobar and

his cartel

the location was the perfect hideout

after escobar's death at the young age

of 44 through being shot by colombian

police

casa malka fell into disrepair and was

left rotting for years

that is at least until 2012 when the

mansion was bought and renovated by

world-renowned

new york-based art dealer leo lamka who

somehow managed to turn the murky

casamalka into a boutique hotel

of beauty number two

five hundred 2500 on rubber bands each

month

at the peak of pablo escobar's powers

his cartel was making

so much money that it was becoming

almost a problem after making around 2.1

billion dollars per year by providing 80

of the world's cocaine escobar had a

hard time storing his copious amounts of

wealth with the cash being hidden in the

walls of cartel members homes as well as

being literally

buried in the ground escobar had so much

money on his hands that he was losing

roughly 10

of it through going missing or being

damaged and eaten by hungry rats

when you have so much money to manage

keeping things organized and in bundles

can be a real issue

escobar and his cronies were making so

much blood-stained money that they were

forking out two

thousand five hundred dollars a month

just on

rubber bands that's incredible if you

ask me the police should have just

followed the rubber band trail they

would have caught escobar a lot sooner

number one burnt two million dollars

cash to keep daughter warm

being pablo escobar's son must have been

a wild childhood to say the least

that is one kid who is certainly not

messed with on the playground

while it was certainly extravagant and

probably very weird to have your father

be so wealthy that he literally offered

to pay off the nation of colombia's

national

debt in exchange for his pardon the

countless crimes that came with the

wealth and notoriety even led juan pablo

to change his name to sebastian maraquin

when sitting down for an interview with

don juan magazine in 2009

the then 38 year old described what life

was like

on the run with the king of cocaine when

living in a hideout in the medellin

mountainside

pablo's daughter manuela became

hypothermic from the cold

without a moment's hesitation don pablo

torched

two million dollars in crisp banknotes

to keep her

warm i'm not sure whether to be endeared

by the act of a father protecting his

daughter or

fascinated by the lack of value one of

the wealthiest men

in history now gave money pablo escobar

certainly liked to live on the wild and

lavish side but if you had his billions

of dollars what would you spend it on

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a legendary colombian drug lord and

narco

terrorist pablo escobar's name will live

on in infamy

for all time known as the king of

cocaine

he is without doubt the wealthiest

criminal in

history

amassing a 30 billion dollar 64 billion

by today's standards

fortune by the time of his death but how

did he spend it

let's find out this is how pablo

escobar spent his billions

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number 15 pet hippos

what do you do if you have millions of

dollars at your disposal and you're the

notorious drug lord

pablo escobar one asset you probably

wouldn't think of

is the purchase of a small group of

hippos

escobar bought four hippopotamuses and

kept them at his illegal zoo in his

extravagant colombian estate

after escobar's death by bullet the

future of the hippos was left up in the

air

most of the captive animals were taken

away by various zoos and conservation

organizations

after the collapse of the enclosure but

the hippos were left to fend for

themselves

and have since gone on to multiply with

the government issuing and

if you can catch them you can keep them

policy the hippos continue to evade

anyone looking to cash in on these

giant animals the hippos have grown

tired of their allocated space and have

decided to stretch their unsupervised

legs

unfortunately for locals these new

pastures include the country's main

river the magdalena with warnings that

this

mixing of humans and hippos will have

deadly results

the government's leaning more and more

towards just killing these magnificent

animals if they cannot be controlled if

they were to meet their maker through

the bullet of a gun

the parallels with the death of their

original owner would be almost

poetic like this video smash the

subscribe button and click the

notification bell right now or this

centipede will crawl on your face when

you're sleeping

number 14 hacienda napoles

one of the biggest purchases anyone will

ever make in their lifetime

is the purchase of their home most of us

may only ever need to do it once

and when we do we go for a relatively

modest house

but when you have as much money as pablo

escobar you can rest assured that this

is gonna be one

flashy house far from disappointing

expectations the drug lord resided in a

20 kilometer squared main estate known

as

hacienda napoles 150 kilometers east of

medellin and 249 kilometers northwest of

pagoda this was no regular estate as it

included everything from a spanish

colonial house

a sculpture park and a complete zoo

decked out with the most extravagant of

animals

most of us dream of having more than one

bathroom let alone all of that

and if you thought that was the end of

the list then you are gravely mistaken

a private airport a bowl ring and even a

cart

racing track could be found once you

enter through the gates of this

paradisa land of pleasure and leisure

i mean this home is tony stark levels of

kitted out

even the entrance gate is something to

be truly marveled at

get it marveled as it has one of

escobar's first

smuggling planes fixed atop talk about

hiding in plain sight

number 13.

pablo escobar actually went to prison

and rather than being chased into a

blocked off alleyway and being thrown

handcuffed into the back of a police car

the king of cocaine

actually handed himself in who would

have thought it while this might sound

like a bizarre decision to make

the prison he agreed to was far from the

most ordinary of jails

this place was unlike any jail you have

ever heard of

or seen the cathedral was the place

decided upon after negotiations between

escobar and the government concluded

with the custom-built prison being

far from somewhere you might see on the

news this place was truly extraordinary

decked out with a sauna a pool a

dancehall

billiards room and a sports field to say

escobar lived in luxury during his short

stint behind bars

would be an understatement escobar's

jail was 100 times

nicer than most people's houses i'd pay

to stay in a place like this

during his stay escobar even hosted

multiple wedding ceremonies

binged on all kinds of luxurious foods

whilst in the arms of beautiful women

and even had the colombian national

football team play a game

on his private patch doesn't exactly

sound like guantanamo bay

does it we'd argue it barely counts as

jail at all

actually sounds like quite a lavish life

when the government decided that

enough was enough as it became

increasingly obvious that the drug lord

was still conducting his business

efficiently behind bars they decided to

end his comfy stay

we have to admit that's probably for the

best but while only 13 months into his

already soft

five-year sentence they arrived at the

prison to find

their inmate had already left number

12 miami house 15.9 million dollars

before pablo escobar became one of the

most hunted men in the united states

thanks to an array of drug smuggling

charges

he happily spent time in a large and

relaxing home in miami florida

most people in this day and age old

sadly never owned one home

let alone the abundance that pablo

escobar has to his name

with the property costing the colombian

765

5500 in 1980 the 7

336 square foot pastel pink mansion

had everything from a manicured

courtyard custom lighting and multi-car

garage

as well as a stunning view of the sun

setting over the sea

with florida's floor-to-ceiling glass

walls wrap around terraces

expansive lunge decks outdoor kitchen

and infinity pool and

countless palm trees all decorating the

property and making its notorious owner

feel as comfortable as possible

it's safe to say that escobar has a

taste for the finer things in life

and to be fair so would we if we could

afford it i suppose at least he wasn't

spending his bloodstained money on

ugly luxuries if we could take any

consolation from his splurge

seized in 1987 by u.s marshals its

closure marked the beginning of the end

for the colombian even if that wouldn't

come for another six

years but boy oh boy did it come

number 11 abandoned caribbean

house the dark past of pablo escobar

still lives on in the various homes he

bought with the money he earned from all

of his drug dealings

if you're gonna have a party home as one

of the world's biggest cocaine dealers

then choosing the caribbean isn't a bad

place to settle

this particular archipelago of small

islands in the caribbean

was the scene of countless extravagant

parties held by the medellin cartel

the gem on the crown of this party area

is probably the secret party home on la

is la grande which

included a mansion waterfront apartments

a palm court

enormous swimming pool and a helicopter

landing pad

for an easy entrance and swift exit they

certainly weren't lacking space as the

complex had over 300 guest rooms

it wouldn't be attached to pablo escobar

if it wasn't screaming wealth

and with gold shower heads in all of the

bathrooms you can be sure

that box is well and truly checked i

know he was obviously a bad guy but

going to a party here must have been

insane although i got some struggle to

relax

you know just in case they got too

intoxicated and did something

accidentally disrespectful to make him

end up in a body bag

number 10 norman's k

island shipping cocaine into the united

states is no easy thing to do

even for escobar's cartel the focal

point of this tricky operation was pablo

escobar's

norman's k island which was used as the

drug running point for the cartel when

reaching out to their american market

that's right he owns an island a whole

island just when you thought his

spending could not get

more lavish and ridiculous the man goes

and buys an entire island for himself

maybe the finale of loss would have made

more sense if it turned out that the

island they were on was escobar's

the island wasn't just used for business

purposes however with the famous drug

smuggler carlos letter using the

location to host

countless parties letter was also the

man in charge of smuggling escobar's

narcotics into the us

with the island's 3 300 foot airstrip

armed guards vicious attack dogs and

their own personal radar system to keep

a lookout for any suspicious aircraft

trying to land

all helping to smooth over operations

couple this paranoia of an imminent

arrest with the copious amounts of

cocaine snorted and i'm sure they were

more than on

edge at times when off duty the island

provided its occupants with

plenty of ways to relax with its own

nightclub hotel

swimming pool private dock and countless

gorgeous

sandy beaches to choose from visiting

here in its heyday was certainly a load

of fun

being a criminal almost sounds idyllic

if it wasn't for the constant fear of

arrest and threat of being killed by

friend or foe number 9

mk3669x

plane when you're smuggling in countless

kilos of the

obviously illegal drug cocaine having a

plane with the most hold capacity is

essential to make your extremely risky

trips even more worthwhile

in steps the mk3669x

plane which was a particular favorite of

escobar's cartel

if you roam around escobar's old

stomping grounds you'll see various of

these crafts rotting away

and being consumed by father time if you

saw one of these flying in from overseas

in the 80s then you were probably

witnessing a crime

firsthand the mk-3669x wasn't the only

plane in escobar's possession with the

seventh richest man in the world having

a whole collection of pricey aircrafts

such as the dc-3 which costs 200

000 as well as several tbm 700s which

amounted to 1.3 million dollars

each damn escobar owned so many planes

he could have just gone down the

straight and arrow and opened his own

airport

there escobar perhaps maybe we could

take a trip on an air escobar plane and

then crash land on

escobar island number eight

la purana boat and jet ski

pablo escobar might be known for his

grand spending and his love of the finer

things in life which are made available

to him due to his infamous criminal

activity

however one of his vehicles isn't

exactly the flashy kind we've come to

expect but

it played a crucial role a diminutive

private speedboat

named la purana this pacey little craft

was very useful in transferring escobar

from boat to land and vice versa but its

use wasn't just for

convenience the speed of his private

boat meant that he could go a lot faster

than some of the smaller police boats

that would have been deployed to chase

down the criminal

the speedboat is still around collecting

mold and dust as it enjoys retirement on

escobar's

equally rotting estate existing as a

symbol of a bygone era

while it may be a small and somewhat

modest little vehicle

this thing is steeped in a lot of

history

number seven car collection

you wouldn't associate pablo escobar

with low-key vehicles

you would probably rather expect him to

be constantly rolling around in one of

the most luxurious limousines in

vehicles known to man

all year round in rolls the simcoe 1000

with this small rear-engined car being a

favorite of escobars

i guess you can't be driving around

looking flashy constantly if you want to

avoid bringing some extra police heat on

you

the simcoe 1000 was a hugely popular

vehicle in france with the car being

manufactured from 1961 to 1978

154 282 of these cars were made in 1962

in france alone with a surprisingly

spacious interior

there was even space for a wheel in the

front luggage compartment

you know just in case the original was

burst by a stray bullet perhaps

if he wasn't you know pablo escobar this

kind of collection would make him the

perfect guest on jerry seinfeld's

comedians in cars getting coffee but you

know he is pablo escobar so

number six military plane

while there's no doubt that pablo

escobar loved to flaunt his wealth as

well as give back to the community

a lot of his purchases were intelligent

buys which contributed to the success of

his drug

empire one vehicle which certainly

helped smooth over operations and gave

his illegal dealings a more secretive

edge

was his small collection of military

aircraft they're still one of these

military aircraft held by the brazilian

government and left on display for

interested fans of the colombian's

legacy

amazingly the plane has been left in the

exact position escobar landed it all

those years ago

regardless of if this is true talk about

one way to pique the interest of fans

even more number five

ereficio monaco escobar lived a life of

luxury with countless estates and

homes scattered across the land so it

should come as no surprise that he also

had a residence in the capital of

columbia medellin

the location of the house was no doubt

handy for the school run

and with the conducting of business but

the luxury home in the center of the

city

had more than a few pleasant perks

within its walls

as well as his wife and son staying in

one of the 12 apartments the move which

was made to throw off potential

kidnappers

the building had everything from two

swimming pools a tennis court a panic

room

vault and 34 car parking spaces

seems a little excessive if you ask me

but i doubt anyone's going to be telling

pablo that

once called the monaco building the home

was of course

the target for pablo's many enemies a

car bomb

even targeted the building in january

1988 right at the beginning of a deadly

rivalry between the medellin and cali

drug cartels

it is now demolished but when it was

around it was a great

tourist hot spot for nosy foreigners who

wanted to catch a glimpse of the

blood-soaked past

pablo even met his maker via bullet

whilst on one of the rooftops

sounds eerie number four

rolex watch when you're the head of one

of the world's

largest and most successful drug cartels

staying on time is a matter of life

and death keeping in the know of when a

shipment is being delivered or when a

meeting is meant to take place is

crucial to the running of a business

with that being said there is no

rationalization for the purchase of this

ridiculously extravagant timepiece a

rolex wristwatch

the classic yellow gold rolex day day

owned by escobar

is as fancy as you would imagine a watch

belonging to a man who ran a drug cartel

which brought in over 60 million dollars

in profits

every single day with hundreds of

miniature diamonds

the one-of-a-kind timepiece certainly

makes a statement when flashed about on

arrest

the rolex costs an estimated 70 thousand

dollars but was only sold for 8

500. perhaps its dark and bloodied pass

doesn't exactly help it at auction

number three casa malka

mansion being the outlaw that pablo

escobar is

it should come as no surprise that he

had many locations scattered around

south america which were the perfect

places to escape from the watchful eye

of the american government

whilst the list of hideouts is numerous

one which certainly stands out is

casa malka found within the mexican

resort of tulum

casa malka looks like the type of place

you would expect tony montana to live

when escobar hit out here in the late

80s the mansion was consumed with nature

and was not nearly as much of a tourist

hot spot as it is today

with overgrown trees preventing nosy

government agents spotting escobar and

his cartel

the location was the perfect hideout

after escobar's death at the young age

of 44 through being shot by colombian

police

casa malka fell into disrepair and was

left rotting for years

that is at least until 2012 when the

mansion was bought and renovated by

world-renowned

new york-based art dealer leo lamka who

somehow managed to turn the murky

casamalka into a boutique hotel

of beauty number two

five hundred 2500 on rubber bands each

month

at the peak of pablo escobar's powers

his cartel was making

so much money that it was becoming

almost a problem after making around 2.1

billion dollars per year by providing 80

of the world's cocaine escobar had a

hard time storing his copious amounts of

wealth with the cash being hidden in the

walls of cartel members homes as well as

being literally

buried in the ground escobar had so much

money on his hands that he was losing

roughly 10

of it through going missing or being

damaged and eaten by hungry rats

when you have so much money to manage

keeping things organized and in bundles

can be a real issue

escobar and his cronies were making so

much blood-stained money that they were

forking out two

thousand five hundred dollars a month

just on

rubber bands that's incredible if you

ask me the police should have just

followed the rubber band trail they

would have caught escobar a lot sooner

number one burnt two million dollars

cash to keep daughter warm

being pablo escobar's son must have been

a wild childhood to say the least

that is one kid who is certainly not

messed with on the playground

while it was certainly extravagant and

probably very weird to have your father

be so wealthy that he literally offered

to pay off the nation of colombia's

national

debt in exchange for his pardon the

countless crimes that came with the

wealth and notoriety even led juan pablo

to change his name to sebastian maraquin

when sitting down for an interview with

don juan magazine in 2009

the then 38 year old described what life

was like

on the run with the king of cocaine when

living in a hideout in the medellin

mountainside

pablo's daughter manuela became

hypothermic from the cold

without a moment's hesitation don pablo

torched

two million dollars in crisp banknotes

to keep her

warm i'm not sure whether to be endeared

by the act of a father protecting his

daughter or

fascinated by the lack of value one of

the wealthiest men

in history now gave money