As the authorities couldn’t find any association of her finances with any illegal activity, Henao was released. Henao was tracked down, incarcerated for one and a half year while her funds were investigated. However, as things started to normalise, one of her mother’s business associates discovered her mother’s real identity following which Henao absconded with her earnings. In Argentina she started going to school with her brother while her mother gradually became a successful real estate entrepreneur. She also used to keep a piece of beard from Pablo under her pillow. The little girl was so attached with her father that she would sleep with the shirt Pablo wore on his last day. Manuela Escobar started her new life as Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos in Argentina with her mother and brother who also adopted new names. Pablo loved his daughter so much that he kept his words by making one of his mistresses abort her baby. Sources also reveal that her father once gave her word that she will be the last of his line. According to sources, when the darling daughter enquired about the value of a billion dollars the doting father said “the value of your eyes, my princess”. It was also speculated that while hiding with his family in the Medellin mountainside, Manuela’s father burned stacks of dollar bills worth around $2.0 million to protect her from hypothermia. The horse, however, succumbed to infection in this process. A cow’s horn was stapled on the forehead of the horse and wings were attached to its back. Although an impossible proposition, the loving father that Pablo was, he created a unicorn out of a horse for his daughter. Once she wanted a unicorn as her birthday present. Pablo Escobar was a doting father who would pamper his children and literally go to any length to carry out their wishes. Manuela Escobar lived like a princess when her father was alive. Manuela changed her name to Juana Manuela Marroquin Santos and since then has almost led a quiet and private life away from the limelight.
The three of them travelled to different places including Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa and Peru before taking refuge in Argentina. Things changed drastically following her father’s death that saw her fleeing from Colombia with her mother and brother to escape reprisals. However, this fairy tale life ended when her father was shot and killed by Colombian National Police when she was just nine years old. Manuela who was then considered a spoilt little girl of her daddy had all the lavishness of the world in her little hands. It was also rumoured that once he burned $2 million to keep his little princess warm. Pablo Escobar, considered the wealthiest criminal in history, would go to any extent to fulfil even the smallest wishes of his daughter.
Her life so far is no less than a thrilling story as she experienced things that one would probably never imagine in the wildest of dreams. Manuela Escobar is the only daughter of notorious yesteryear Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar, often referred as ‘The King of Cocaine’.
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