Sean Penn travelling to a Mexican jungle to interview Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is already the stuff of legend. However, it turns out the infamous drug lord, who was recently recaptured, didn’t know who the renowned actor was.
It turns out that a Mexican actress was really the plug.
Reports the New York Times:
“What’s the name of this actor again?” he asked his lawyer when a Mexican television star contacted him about doing an interview with Mr. Penn.
The world now alternately lauds and lambastes Mr. Penn, a two-time Oscar winner and a film star for more than 30 years, over his lengthy article in Rolling Stone magazine that recounted his secret trip to a mountain hideout in Mexico to interview the drug lord.
But a series of private cellphone messages leaked in the Mexican news media on Wednesday show that it was the television star, Kate del Castillo, who truly attracted Mr. Guzmán’s attention.
The messages, first reported by the newspaper Milenio, were obtained by Mexican authorities who were monitoring the actress and her contacts with Mr. Guzmán and his associate during the period after the cartel leader broke out of a supposedly escape-proof prison through a tunnel burrowed into his shower.
El Chapo may be extradited to the United Stats to face drug trafficking charges.
So El Chapo was smitten by a woman, which may have lead to his downfall? We’ve all seen this movie before.
Check out photos of Kate del Castillo on the following pages.
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