A longtime Mexican drug cartel boss loved gourmet food and would creep down from his mountain hide out to indulge at elegant restaurants - and pick up the check for the entire establishment in exchange for their silence.
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán even managed to buy off prison staff enough to enjoy decadant food while behind bars, throwing parties for his favored inmates that featured alcohol, lobster bisque, and filet mignon.
The now-captured kingpin also had an insatiable need to pay for sex, according to a fascinating new profile in the New Yorker, despite having a young beauty queen wife.
He would eat Viagra 'like candy' and go visit prostitutes, even having crooked guards bring hookers to his prison cell.
Guzmán was captured at a beach resort in February, just days after he escaped the clutches of police by fleeing through an elaborate series of tunnels near his Culiacan home.
An unnamed D.E.A. official revealed to the New Yorker that Guzman's love of gourmet food was one of his downfalls, and from time to time he indulged his penchant at restaurants in Sinaloa or in a neighboring state.
It was always the same procedure - diners would be startled by a team of gunmen, who would politely demand their cell phones.
Guzman and his entourage would then come in and feast on shrimp and steak.
When done, they would thank the other diners for their playing along, return their cell phones and pick up the tab for everyone before fleeing.
But Guzmán had other weaknesses.
Law enforcement confirmed that Guzmán, had been married at least three times, had traveled in February to Los Cabos for a liaison with a prostitute.
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán loved gourmet food
The drug cartel boss would creep down from his mountain hideout to indulge at elegant restaurants before he was captured in February
He even managed to enjoy decadent food while in prison, throwing parties for his favored inmates with alcohol, lobster bisque, and filet mignon
The now-captured kingpin also had an insatiable need to pay for sex, according to a fascinating new profile in the New Yorker
He would eat Viagra 'like candy' and go visit prostitutes, even having crooked guards bring hookers to his prison cell
He later escaped in a laundry trolley and went on the run for 13 years
Guzmán was ultimately nabbed at a beach resort in February
Just days earlier, he escaped the clutches of police by fleeing through an elaborate series of tunnels near his Culiacan home
After Osama bin Laden was captured in 2011, Mexican Drug Lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was named the World most wanted criminal, Guzman was arrested in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. El Chapo has been married at least three times, do you want to know a couple of interesting things about the women with whom this billionaire head of Mexico’s massive Sinaloa cartel has been linked to?
#1 Joaquin Chapo Guzman’s first wife is Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández.
Joaquin Guzman got married for the first time in 1977 to Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández, mother of his three eldest children, César, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo. Cesar got married to Frida Muñoz Román. He was killed in 2008.
#2 Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández and her sons were sanctioned under the Kingpin Act.
In 2012 the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Alejandrina María Salazar Hernández and her three sons under the Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets.
#3 One of his sons was arrested but released after the case was lacking evidenced.
In February, 2005 his son Ivan was arrested in Guadalajara and sentenced to five years in jail, due to lack of evidence he was released in April, 2008.
#4 In 1980 El Chapo Guzman got married to his second wife Griselda Lopez.
Guzman got married to Griselda López Pérez, mother of his other 4 children édgar, Joaquín, Ovidio and Griselda Guadalupe.
#5 Mexican police raided Griselda’s home this year.
Griselda López Pérez, ex-wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) a complaint against Mexican police for damages in her house after it was raided in Culiacan, Sinaloa
#6 Guzman was 57 when he got married to his third wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, 18.
In November, 2007 Guzman got married to 18-year-old beauty queen and American citizen Emma Coronel Aispuro in Canelas, Durango. Emma gave birth to their twin girls in a Los Angeles
#7 Emma’s uncle was once Guzman’s partner.
In July, 2010 Emma Coronel’s uncle Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a one-time partner of Guzman who was killed in a shootout with the Mexican army.
#8 Emma’s father member of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested.
Emma’s 45-year-old Ines Coronel Barreras was detained alongside four other suspects in the town of Agua Prieta, which borders the US state of Arizona, he was growing marijuana and smuggling it into Arizona.
#9 He had a weakness for women, and did everything in his power to posses any woman he liked even if they rejected him.
Guzman was about 30 years old when he met Estela Pena a employee at a bank in Nayarit, she turned him down every time, so he then kidnapped and rape her, she later married him.
#10 One of his lovers suffered a miscarriage and was later killed by his enemies.
Zulema Hernandez she was arrested on armed-robbery charges, she was serving time at the Puente Grande maximum-security prison outside Guadalajara, where El Chapo was also serving his sentence, she fell for him, and became pregnant but suffered a miscarriage during the second trimester after she was beating by prison guards.
She was released in 2003 and arrested once against after she was caught with two tons of cocaine. After her second released in 2006 became a agent of the Sinaloa cartel until she was killed by the Zetas in December, 2007
Her body was found inside the trunk of a car, she had been shot in the head. Carved into her breasts, stomach and buttocks was the letter Z.