At his extravagant estate in Puerto Triunfo, Escobar also built a private zoo filled with hippos, giraffes, elephants, and other animals. Hippos still roam the grounds today. ¹⁾

Escobar sold stolen vehicles and tombstones to smugglers before becoming a drug lord. ²⁾

Escobar's outspoken sympathy for the underprivileged, as well as his desire to become Colombia's president, earned him the moniker “Robin Hood.” ³⁾

Escobar was earning up to $420 million per week as the ruling lord of the Medellin Cartel.⁴⁾

His narcotics trade thrived to the point that he was transporting roughly 15 tonnes of cocaine every day! ⁵⁾

So much so that he smuggled cocaine into the US by concealing it in plane tires. ⁶⁾

Escobar purchased a Learjet for the sole purpose of flying his money in order to deal with the unending flood of income that came his way. ⁷⁾

Escobar's fortune had grown to 30 billion dollars at one time! ⁸⁾

The man was so wealthy that he spent $2500 a month only on rubber bands to keep his money together. ⁹⁾

When he was in hiding, Escobar even burned two million dollars to keep his kid from becoming sick. ¹⁰⁾

Escobar's greatest fear was extradition, and he poured terror on Colombia in order to avoid prison time in America. ¹¹⁾

Escobar was so afraid of extradition that he volunteered to pay off the Colombian government's debt, which had risen to a staggering ten billion dollars! ¹²⁾