The drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, killed in 1993 in Colombia, had considered kidnapping Michael Jackson and demanding the sum of 60 million dollars in exchange for his release. It is the son of the most famous drug trafficker, Juan Sebastián Marroquín, who tells this incredible story today.
Pablo Escobar’s son revealed in his book titled What my father never told me – released on January 7 by Hugo Poche editions – that his father had planned to kidnap Michael Jackson. The son of the most famous drug trafficker, boss of the terrible cartel of Medelin in Colombia, recounts in this book stories hitherto unknown such as that of the plan to kidnap the “king of pop”.
The original idea: organize a Michael Jackson concert
According to Juan Sebastián Marroquín, he was the one who told his father to “hire” Michael Jackson, of whom he was a fan. The idea was for him to come and sing at the Hacienda Napoles, the gigantic residence of Pablo Escobar regarding 150 km from Medellin.
“It was I who suggested to my father to invite artists of international stature and to stop hiring local artists when he had absolute freedom to bring in whoever we wanted (…) I then proposes Michael Jackson as a possible guest, because I was a fan and my father loved him too. The idea seemed good to him,” Juan Sebastián Marroquín told TN Argentina.
His release for $60 million
But the drug trafficker had another plan: to kidnap Michael Jackson and demand the sum of 60 million dollars in exchange for his release.
“Everything seemed very normal because we had the private airstrip there, the football field very close for him to play his concert and I saw the logistics as easy for him to arrive and do his concert and to return to his country, but my father immediately had an idea… he said to me ‘yes, I will invite him’ (…) he wanted to bring him, pay him, so that he sings and then he pays him to let him go where he came to sing”, revealed the son of Pablo Escobar.