Griselda Blanco
Miami was terrified of Griselda Blanco back in the day. Despite her “humble” beginnings in the mafia world, as she was a prostitute and pickpocket, she soon became one of the most notorious gangsters in the area, rising to infamy as a cold-blooded murderer and narcotics smuggler. She was highly intelligent and ran an empire out of importing and selling cocaine, raising her crime syndicate from the ground and earning her the nickname “Cocaine Godmother.”
She may not have seemed like anything special, but in reality, she was no joke. Apparently, Griselda had connections all the way back to Columbia, from where she sourced her drugs, and even after she was imprisoned for all her crimes, she continued to run her empire from behind bars!
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Yes I have heard of them All
They should make a movie all about these women and how they started especially Stephanie st.clair
I love stories like this
Thank you for this fascinating article about female mafia heads from gangster history. I found it interesting when you mentioned that there are numerous female mafia heads who ran successful crime empires. This read compels me to learn more, so I’ll definitely find a mafia historical site in my area to satisfy my curiosity.
You forgot to include Hillary Clinton
Interesting that they went into the 1990s, and yet failed to mention Hillary Clinton… She had a daughter by a family friend in retaliation for her husband’s multiple infidelities… Everyone that opposed her “committed suicide”, one by stabbing himself in the back 12 times in a public park… And, of course Ron Brown who was about to destroy her Golden Goose, by reporting to Newt Gingrich, when he returns to Washington after giving our Nuclear Missile Guidance System Blueprints to China, in thanks for reElection funds… He died in a plane crash on the way back, in which, as they reported “Everyone died”, but in truth there was only 1 body at the crash site, Ron Brown, with a bullet in the back of his head… The Investigator of the site was moved to a different department, when the cover story made news… 2 years later, she, the Investigator, managed to steal the sealed file and open it live on CNN showing pictures of her and her Assistant at the crashsite, as well as Ron Brown and the bullet hole, for 10 minutes, then it disappeared… The Clintons were still in the Whitehouse…
I don’t know if you would consider Patty Cannon of Sussex County De a gangster but she was a illegal slave trader a serial killer and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson gang of Md and De.