Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar of the journalist is played by Penélope Cruz, while the drug kingpin by Javier Bardem, both winners of the Oscar of the Academy of Hollywood as best supporting actors. Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar is the translation of the title ""Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar"", a memoir of the Colombian author and journalist Virginia Vallejo. It was originally written in Spanish and was published by Random House Mondadori on 22 September 2007, and Random House Inc. of New York on 4 October 2007. The book describes the five years-long (1982-1987) romantic relationship of the author with
Pablo Escobar the government in the 1980s. Later, the dilapidated property was owned by Christian de Berdouare, proprietor of the Chicken Kitchen fast-food chain, who had bought it in 2014. De Berdouare would later hire a documentary film crew and professional treasure hunters to search the edifice before and after demolition, for anything related to Escobar or his cartel. They would find unusual holes in floors and walls, as well as a safe that was stolen from its hole in the marble flooring before it could be properly examined. Escobar also owned a massive Caribbean getaway on Isla Grande, the largest of