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When 1980s drug lord Pablo Escobar was making as much as $100 million per day, he built a lavish mansion with a zoo containing elephants, giraffes, and hippos. After he was gunned down in 1993, the government couldn't afford to keep up the extravagant zoo and the hippos escaped into the wild. See the photos and learn how Pablo Escobar’s hippos are wreaking havoc in Colombia to this day Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (/ˈɛskəbɑːr/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo es.koˈβ̞aɾ]; 1 December 1949 – 2 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. Born in Rionegro and raised in Medellín, Escobar studied briefly at Universidad Autó