Pablo Escobar Mansion: Another Safe Retrieved in Miami
As the search for more valuable items continues at the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's former mansion in Miami, The Miami Herald reveals a recent development -- a discovery of another safe. Although the publication fails to reveal what lies inside the safe, it is speculated to contain something of value.
New owners Christian de Berdouares and his wife, television journalist Jennifer Valoppi, purchased the mansion last year at $9.65 million and previously announced their desire to remove all the attributes that have been connected to the drug business of Escobar in the 1980s, the news agency reports.
In light of their plans, the two have also asked experts to dig into walls and floors of the famous 7,336-square-foot pink mansion in Miami to discover some possible wealth that has been left behind by the "King of Cocaine," the news outlet reported.
So before completely tearing down the 33,000-square-foot property and the mansion, one of their workers saw the safe. Miguel Mato, while working with an excavator, was reportedly the one to discover the safe.
"We had left one of the walls because they had to film a scene for the documentary... when I started to knock it down, a piece of rubble hit the foundation, the floor sunk and I saw it," Mato said as quoted by the publication. "It was something gray. I grabbed it with the excavator's claw, realized it was a safe and started to yell to tell them."
De Berdouares, who previously said that anything connected to the drug lord is not something that the Chicken Kitchen owner wanted to be associated with, was surprisingly happy to have in his possession a safe that could be very valuable.
"This is real. It's still locked. It's very, very heavy. We can't believe it -- now Pablito is my best friend," De Berdouares said as quoted by the news agency.
Meanwhile, EFE reports that after concluding searches, the owners will now be demolishing a new house away from all the past crimes that are associated to Escobar.
The Miami Herald further revealed that Escobar was killed in 1993 in Colombia during a police shootout. The famous pink mansion was bought at an original price of $762,500 by Escobar in March 1980. However, by 1987, the property, as well as other properties amounting to $20 million, was seized by the U.S. authorities, the news agency reports.
De Berdouares and Valoppi will reportedly release a documentary on the Escobar mansion soon.
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