His daughter adored him, and he doted on his family. However, at home, he was reportedly an excellent father and husband.
One of his most famous mistresses was journalist Virginia Vallejo, who published her own memoir titled Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar in 2007. Maria called this ‘deeply painful’ but said she was too in love with him to leave him. Once he built the infamous Hacienda Napoles, he even had a bachelor suite installed so he could meet his many mistresses on the property. While she remained a faithful wife, Pablo had plenty of mistresses during their 17-year marriage. They had two children together, Juan Pablo and Manuela. Instead, her role was to ‘look the other way.’ She wasn’t allowed to ask questions or confront him about his decisions.
She remained quiet, stating in her biography that Pablo molded her into his children’s perfect wife and mother. But he didn’t divulge his actual dealings with her.Īll she knew was he traveled for work often, and they were wealthy. He was building up his drug empire and often away on business. Initially, Maria Henao claimed no clue what her husband did. However, her family disapproved of the nuptials, so she cut them out of her life. In her biography, she called the night ‘unforgettable’ and said it was one of the happiest moments of her life. She and Pablo eloped in 1976 when she was 15 and he was 26. Their courtship turned sexual when she was only 14, and she disclosed in her memoir that she ended up pregnant and had to get a back-alley abortion. She admitted she didn’t understand what intimacy and a relationship truly meant. He would give her regular gifts such as a yellow bicycle in their early days.īut Maria was young and had no experience with relationships. In her biography, she describes Pablo as ‘affectionate’ and says: “He made me feel like a fairy princess, and I was convinced he was my Prince Charming.”Īfter they met, she fell in love with Pablo. However, to Maria, he was a completely different person. He was 11 years older and already on his way to becoming a drug lord. Her older brother Carlos was already working for Escobar in 1974, and she met the kingpin through him when she was only 13. Not much is known about her early years before meeting Pablo.
She grew up in a city called Palmira Valle del Cauca in southwest Colombia and supposedly enjoyed dancing. She was born in 1961 in Colombia to Carlos Henao Vallejo and Leonor Zuleta. Escobar: My Life with Pablo, detailing her years with Pablo and her life since he met his end. However, in 2019, she published a biography, Mrs. Since then, she’s lived a private life, mostly in hiding under various aliases in Argentina. While she admits that she was unaware of her husband’s criminal dealings through the first few years of their marriage after she found out, she remained married to him until his life ended in 1993. Maria Victoria Henao was the wife of one of the world’s most notorious criminals, Pablo Escobar.
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