| Celebrated Name: | Michael Blanco |
| Real Name/Full Name: | Michael Corleone Blanco |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 46 years old |
| Birth Date: | August 5, 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Medellin, Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Height: | 1.5 meters |
| Weight: | 65 kgs |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | In a relationship |
| Wife/Spouse (Name): | N/A |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | No |
| Dating/Girlfriend (Name): | Yes (Marie Ramirez) |
| Is Michael Corleone Blanco Gay?: | N/A |
| Profession: | Entrepreneur |
| Salary: | N/A |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $5 million |
| Last Updated: | December 2024 |
Michael Blanco is well known as an entrepreneur who has a Colombian cartel history. His mother is a well-known drug trafficker who had thrived in the cartel business where she trafficked cocaine. She became so popular that she was even named as the ‘Godmother ‘of the cocaine business.
Griselda Blanco was locked up for ten years after being arrested for drug trafficking and Michael Blanco being the last born in the Blanco’s family he had no other way but to take up the business. His other brothers were all in jail. Blanco took up the cocaine business since when he was 12 years old till when he was 33 years old. Blanco had to change his ways after his mother was gunned down in 2012, and he is now the founder of Streetwear label Pure Blanco.
Maybe you know about Michael Corleone Blanco very well, but do you know how old and tall is he, and what is his net worth in 2024? If you do not see, we have prepared this article about details of Michael Corleone Blanco’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you’re ready, let’s start.
Early Life & Biography
Michael Blanco was born on August 5, 1975, in Medellin, Colombia. He is the son of Griselda Blanco, who was a well-known cocaine trafficker of her time. His mother was a notorious drug lord, and she was named The Cocaine Godmother because of her influence in the cartel business. When Blanco’s mother was arrested and imprisoned, he was 12 years old, and he had to take over the drug selling business
Blanco has never despised the sacrifices that his mother made for him and his family despite her being in the cartel business. As it is recorded in most of his interviews at T.V shows, he says that his mother was his queen. He respects the fact that she kept them together, made them sit for dinner as a family, take family vacations like most family, and also protect them when crises came up.
Blanco had to take over the drug trade between Colombia and Miami when his mother was in jail. Michael had buried 22 family members who were in the cartel business with him till when he was 33. At this time, his life turned around right after his mother was gunned down in 2012. He had to prove to himself that despite him being in the cartel, he could also lid a whole life and make his family eat from genuine life hustle.
Personal Life
Michael Blanco is the son of Dario Sepulveda and Griselda Blanco. He is born into a family that has a criminal history and a legacy of cocaine trafficking. His mother was the Godmother in the cocaine cartel and trafficked drugs from Colombia to Miami. This is a business that he took over since when he was 12 till when he was 33 and then stopped to run his streetwear cloth line known as Pure Blanco. Michael is not married but has a girlfriend by the name Marie Ramirez De Arellano.
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 5 August 1975, Michael Corleone Blanco is 46 years old as of today’s date 29th December 2024. His height is 1.5m tall, and his weight is 65 kg.
Career
Blanco was 12 when his mother and all his brothers were in jail. Blanco’s mother needed someone to continue her business legacy in her absence, even if the business was not legal. Michael took on the drug trafficking business from his mother and continued the family legacy a few decades that followed. He escalated his criminal career and drifted in and out of trouble with the law all along.
Blanco buried 22 members of his family who were with him in his business, not forgetting countless times that he avoided assassination attempts on his life. His mother was shot and killed in Colombia, and this was Blanco’s turning point. He realized his family needed to be fed from genuine money and lid a life out of fears from being killed while in the drug business and like his mother. Michael, therefore, decided to start up a streetwear label called Pure Blanco.
Michael is now best known as one of the successful entrepreneurs borne in Colombia. He has also acted a few movies and appeared on T.V series on VH1 that shows children born in the cartel family, and that has made a turnaround from drug trafficking to earn a good living. The T.V show also gives a platform for the characters to explain their family relations in a different and personal way more than what people already know about them.
Awards & Achievements
Michael Blanco has had a tremendous sales record from his cloth bland that has been selling streetwear clothes. In the brand, there are T-shirts branded with his mother’s face to continue a clean legacy of the mother he knew in his life despite her being in the cocaine selling business. He has also appeared in VH1’S T.V. series that invites changed children from the cartel crew to talk about life in the drug business and to show it to the world that they too can change their ways. In the Godfather series, he was named Al Pacino’s character Michael Corleone.
Net Worth & Salary of Michael Corleone Blanco in 2024
Michael Blanco’s estimated net worth is $5 million as of December 2024. Michael is well known as one of the most successful Colombian entrepreneurs who is the founder of the streetwear label, well known as The Pure Blanco. This brand has been through hiccups because of the T-shirts it made that were branded with Griselda Blanco’s face. Blanco clarified this, saying that the bland was a love sign for his mother.
It is just to say that the fruits of crime are death. Blanco learned this the hard way through losing his family and mostly his mother, whom he calls his queen. He is an epitome of change because he has changed his life from crime to owning a multi-million dollar clothing company.