8. He Lived Extravagantly
As befits a real-life Tony Montana, Pablo Escobar lived a life of ostentatious wealth and extreme luxury. His holiday hideaway, Hacienda Napoles, was a paradise spread over 5,000 acres and contained everything from pools and bullrings, to a private zoo containing hippos, elephants and giraffes. The estate was used both for his family recreation and to host cocaine-fueled parties filled with some of Columbia’s most powerful and influential names. After his death, his family went into hiding and Hacienda Napoles was torn apart by people looking for the rumored buried stashes of drugs; it’s now a ruin inhabited by drifters, hippies and hippos.
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