Article: Drug Lord's Lover Enthralls Colombia; Socialite Makes Allegations Against Elite

-- If history's most notorious drug trafficker was such a lowlife, how did he manage to seduce a sophisticated socialite who was a superstar model, actress and TV host?

The question has been obsessing Colombians ever since the former lover of Pablo Escobar surfaced in the United States in July and held up an unflattering mirror to Colombian society by detailing alleged ties between the elite and organized crime.

In an hour-long statement broadcast on Colombia's RCN Television, Virginia Vallejo alleged that Escobar, the leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel until he was killed in a police raid in December 1993, had ties with various prominent Colombians, including two former presidents. ...

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