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'I had 30 Lamborghinis': Escobar's coke pilot
The Free Press Journal
|June 07, 2025
In a startling new podcast, Tirso "TJ" Dominguez, who became Pablo Escobar's primary cocaine pilot, revealed he initially rebuffed the notorious drug lord's employment offer.
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Content with his $4 million monthly earnings flying for a competitor, Dominguez only changed his mind when Escobar, "the Patron," presented an astronomical counter-offer: $20 million a month.
"I had 30 Lamborghinis, and I dressed well," Dominguez recounted in the eight-part documentary podcast, Cocaine Air. "They brought me the car that decided to wear that day." This interview, believed to be his first since his 1988 arrest, offers a chilling first-hand account of the motivations behind working for one of history's most infamous criminals. Dominguez claims his foray into drug smuggling in the late 1970s was an unexpected turn of events.
This story is from the June 07, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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