Pablo Escobar. A walking mystery with a hard facade of drugs and crime, one who would have gained almost a mythological status if it weren’t for the 4,000 lives he claimed to prove his existence.

We are fascinated with Escobar’s life of scandal. We see him as a drug dealer, a government corruptor & a killer all while earning $40 million a week. Yet rare photos have surfaced a side of Escobar that would resemble your average neighbourhood family man, once again creating another dimension on the story of Pablo Escobar.

So from cocaine to family dinners, here is well… the quite ordinarily mundane side of the most wanted drug dealer in the world.

 

Images via Getty/ Wikimedia Commons/ Vintage Everyday 

 

Pablo Escobar and his wife Maria Victoria, he was 24 and she was 13.

Pablo Escobar and his wife Maria Victoria on their wedding day.

Escobar and his first son Juan Pablo, who was born in 1977.

Escobar and his son watching TV in their newly renovated house that featured not only a TV but a private airport and a Zoo.

Escobar and his son at their private family Zoo.

A smiling Pablo Escobar in his first ever mugshot.

 

Escobar’s second child, Manuela. (1984)

Manuela & Escobar.

Escobar and his cousin, Gustavo Gaviria, posing as Old West gangsters in a staged photograph in Las Vegas. (1980s)

 

 

1982, Escobar running for congress.

Escobar and the Medellín cartel.

Escobar supporting his football team, Atlético Nacional, in the late 1980’s.

Escobar and his son on a holiday to the USA, posing out the front of the White House.

 

Words by Edelle Gettings