Editing Pablo Escobar (section)

== Personal life ==
=== Family and relationships ===
In March 1976, the 26-year-old Escobar married María Victoria Henao, who was 15. The relationship was discouraged by the Henao family, who considered Escobar socially inferior; the pair eloped.{{sfn|Escobar|2014|p=74}} They had two children: Juan Pablo (now [[Sebastián Marroquín]]) and Manuela. In 2007, the journalist [[Virginia Vallejo]] published her memoir ''Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar'' (''[[Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar]]''), in which she describes her romantic relationship with Escobar and the links of her lover with several presidents, Caribbean dictators, and high-profile politicians.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etgh1pGU7e0 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/Etgh1pGU7e0| archive-date=2021-10-28|title=Los Narcopresidentes | website=[[YouTube]]|date=24 November 2008 |access-date=15 October 2017 |language=es |trans-title=The Narco-presidents}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Her book inspired the movie ''[[Loving Pablo]]'' (2017).<ref>{{cite news |last=Mayorga |first=Emilio |date=3 September 2017 |title=Loving Pablo Director on Reuniting Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz: It's Been Very Intense |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/venice-facetime-loving-pablo-helmer-fernando-leon-de-aranoa-1202546440/ |work=Variety |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403185312/https://variety.com/2017/film/news/venice-facetime-loving-pablo-helmer-fernando-leon-de-aranoa-1202546440/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A drug distributor, [[Griselda Blanco#Personal life|Griselda Blanco]], is also reported to have conducted a clandestine but passionate relationship with Escobar; several items in her diary link him with the nicknames "Coque de Mi Rey" (My Coke King) and "Polla Blanca" (White Cock).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrqoXbnAAQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/aXrqoXbnAAQ| archive-date=2021-10-28|title=Me Matan, Limon! -Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota|website=INEDITO|first=Tom|last= Jerry|date=30 September 2013|access-date=19 June 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Escobar was a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and was described by a [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|priest]], Father Elkin, as a profoundly [[Catholic devotions|devout]] man who was led astray by his ambitions. Escobar reportedly told Father Elkin "It's not important to be repentant, i am a believer." Escobar would even go to confession. He even claimed to have experienced a vision of Christ.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-03 |title=The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar {{!}} The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/the-afterlife-of-pablo-escobar |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250103045450/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/the-afterlife-of-pablo-escobar |url-status=dead |archive-date=2025-01-03 |access-date=2025-04-11 }}</ref>

=== Properties ===
After becoming wealthy, Escobar created or bought numerous residences and [[safe house]]s, with the [[Hacienda Nápoles]] gaining significant notoriety. The luxury house contained a colonial house, a sculpture park, and a complete zoo with animals from various continents, including [[elephant]]s, exotic birds, [[giraffe]]s, and [[hippopotamus]]es. Escobar had also planned to construct a Greek-style [[citadel]] near it, and though construction of the citadel was started, it was never finished.<ref name="BBCJune2008">{{cite news |title=At home on Pablo Escobar's ranch |first=Mike |last=Ceaser |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7390584.stm |work=BBC News |date=2 June 2008 |access-date=13 February 2010 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031632/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7390584.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Escobar owned a home in the US under his own name: a 6,500 square foot (604&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup>), pink, waterfront mansion situated at 5860 North Bay Road in [[Miami Beach, Florida]]. The four-bedroom estate, built in 1948 on [[Biscayne Bay]], was seized by the US federal government in the 1980s. Later, the dilapidated property was owned by Christian de Berdouare, proprietor of the Chicken Kitchen fast-food chain, who had bought it in 2014. De Berdouare would later hire a documentary film crew and professional treasure hunters to search the edifice before and after demolition, for anything related to Escobar or his cartel. They would find unusual holes in floors and walls, as well as a safe that was stolen from its hole in the marble flooring before it could be properly examined.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Business Insider]]|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/a-luxurious-miami-mansion-built-by-the-the-king-of-cocaine-is-no-more-2016-1|date=24 January 2016|title=Military & Defense: A luxurious Miami mansion built by the 'King of Cocaine' is no more|author=Macias, Amanda|agency=Associated Press|access-date=10 September 2016|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424164441/https://www.businessinsider.com/a-luxurious-miami-mansion-built-by-the-the-king-of-cocaine-is-no-more-2016-1|url-status=live}}</ref>

Escobar owned a huge Caribbean getaway on Isla Grande, the largest of the cluster of the 27 [[coral island|coral cluster island]]s comprising [[Islas del Rosario]], located about {{convert|22|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=on}} from [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]]. The compound, now half-demolished and overtaken by vegetation and wild animals, featured a mansion, apartments, courtyards, a large swimming pool, a helicopter landing pad, reinforced windows, tiled floors, and a large but unfinished building to the side of the mansion.<ref>{{cite news|work=Business Insider|author=Macias, Amanda|date=12 May 2016|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/caribbean-getaway-for-drug-kingpin-pablo-escobar-2015-9/#escobar-built-a-massive-waterfront-villa-on-the-largest-of-the-cluster-islands-isla-grande-2|title=Military & Defense: This dilapidated villa once served as a Caribbean getaway for drug-kingpin Pablo Escobar|access-date=10 September 2016|archive-date=19 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919171551/https://www.businessinsider.com/caribbean-getaway-for-drug-kingpin-pablo-escobar-2015-9#escobar-built-a-massive-waterfront-villa-on-the-largest-of-the-cluster-islands-isla-grande-2|url-status=live}}</ref>