
He liked to use his massive wealth to spend on cool cars, and he built up a really unique collection over the years. The 7,336 square foot house was built in 1948 and has 4 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms on a lot size of 33,041. The house was once owned by notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who purchased the house on Mafor 765,500. He oversaw each step of cocaine production, from sourcing coca base paste in Andean nations to feeding a booming US market for the drug. Known as El Patrón, Escobar led the Medellín Cartel from the 1970s to the early 1990s. If you’ve seen anything about Pablo Escobar, you might be aware that he loved driving. A pink, black tiled house, located at 5860 North Bay Road on Miami Beach is set to be demolished on January 19, 2016. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was the pioneer in industrial-scale cocaine trafficking. At the age of 35, he had already made more money than the average person ever will in his or her entire life. Few drug lords in history have became household names like Colombia's infamous Pablo Escobar, whose cocaine enterprise, the Medelln Cartel, wielded an estimated 30 billion at its height in the mid-1980s, making him one of the richest people on the planet, according to Biography.

The amazing thing about Pablo Escobar is that he earned the ridiculous amount of money he did all at quite a young age. There’s no way of confirming the truthfulness of these stories, but they're fascinating nonetheless. Another crazy story people love to repeat about Pablo Escobar: he made so much money at the height of his success that he would have to go as far as spending $1,000 every week just so he could have rubber bands to keep all his cash in place.

Covering eight hectares (20 acres), La Manuela consisted of a stately. To put how absurd his money situation was into perspective, Escobar once burned a pile of money worth around $2 million just to keep his daughter warm. Finca La Manuela, now a tourist attraction, was Pablo Escobars second favorite home.

Escobar was apparently worth approximately $30 billion and more (with his miscellaneous burials of cash all over Colombia, it's almost impossible to tell how much specifically). Now transformed into a boutique museum/hotel. At one point in time, he was actually one of the wealthiest people in the entire world in fact, Forbes magazine actually called him the seventh richest person in the world in a 1989 report. A once in a lifetime experience to walk through Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobars former mansion. It's one of the better portrayals of Pablo Escobar and his role in Colombia’s history. But for all his fame and money, Escobar was eventually killed by Colombian police in 1993, leaving behind a family, a vast drug enterprise, and his prized property, a home he called Hacienda Npoles ('Naples Estate') in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia. If you have Netflix, you've most likely heard of the show Narcos.
