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Pablo Escobar ran a loaded revolver down her body before sex, says Virginia Vallejo, the TV anchor who was his lover from 1983 to 1987. She also says he paid guerrillas $1 million to burn his extradition files. Nearly three months later, they stormed Colombia's Supreme Court. About 100 people died, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices. The building burned, and thousands of files were lost. Netflix's new series "Under Siege," out Nov. 6, is about that siege. In the video below, Vallejo tells Colombia's Semana, in Spanish, about the day Escobar introduced her to M-19 commander Ivan Marino Ospina at his Hacienda Napoles estate. She stepped out, came back, and heard them talking money. "What is that $2 million for, if you hate the M-19?" she says she asked. His answer, she says: "$1 million up front now, and $1 million when they've done the job." Days later, the army killed Ospina. "I was saved," she says. After the siege, she says, Escobar told her what really happened. "I told him it was despicable. 100 people dead. Such a massacre." Penelope Cruz played her opposite Javier Bardem in "Loving Pablo." In 2006, she left Colombia on a DEA plane as a possible witness. The revolver scene is from her memoir. She sued Netflix, saying "Narcos" copied it for Escobar's TV-reporter lover, Valeria Velez. A federal judge in Miami threw the case out in 2019, and an appeals court agreed in 2020. The case for: in 2009, a truth commission on the siege concluded that Escobar financed the attack and gave Ospina $2 million. The case against: in 2008 she told a prosecutor she never saw the money handed over, and four former M-19 commanders say drug traffickers did not order the attack. Virginia Vallejo: the woman who heard Escobar buy the Palace of Justice siege, or a lover still rewriting him 40 years later?

Griselda Blanco wanted John F. Kennedy Jr. kidnapped and traded for her freedom, says Charles Cosby, who wrote her a fan letter at 23 and became her lover. He says she pulled the plan out of her bra on a note: "JFK 5M NY." She paid prison guards $1,500 so they could have sex in a back room, he says. He was an Oakland crack dealer who says he became a millionaire 45 days after meeting her. In the video below, Cosby tells VladTV how many times they had sex in prison: "approximately 100 times." And what she said the note meant: "I'm going to snatch Kennedy Jr." Blanco, the Miami cocaine "Godmother" Sofía Vergara played in Netflix's "Griselda," was serving time at FCI Dublin, a federal women's prison 20 miles from Oakland. By her own estimate, he says, she was still pulling in $50 million a year from behind bars. At their first visit he asked for 50 kilos, about $2 million on the street. His cut was 10%. "At that point, the most money I've ever had was $30,000." Then she found out about another woman. He says a gunman opened fire at a stoplight, and his vest took four bullets. On his next visit she grabbed him by the throat. When her top hitman, Jorge "Rivi" Ayala, agreed to testify against her, the note came out. He says one of four Colombian kidnappers got close enough to pet Kennedy's dog before a police car passed by. She escaped the electric chair anyway: two secretaries in the prosecutor's office were caught having phone sex with Ayala. She was deported in 2004 and shot dead outside a Medellin butcher shop in 2012, at 69. The case for Cosby: FBI records describe a 1995 tip about a plot to kidnap Kennedy in New York, with suspects tied to Colombia. The case against: agents could not corroborate it, and her son Michael says Cosby lied about her blessing for the documentary. Charles Cosby: the man who almost helped kidnap JFK Jr., or the Godmother's best storyteller?

Larry Flynt was 55 when he paid $85,000 for one ad in the Washington Post. It offered up to $1 million for proof of "an adulterous sexual encounter" with a member of Congress or a high-ranking official. 76 days later, the man picked to be the next Speaker of the House stood up in the middle of Bill Clinton's impeachment debate and gave it all up. In the video below, Flynt in January 1999: "I didn't start this. Ken Starr and Henry Hyde got in the mud first. I just decided to jump in there with them." Then Bob Livingston on the House floor, December 19, 1998. The ad ran October 4, 1998. Flynt told Time he got more than 2,000 calls. On December 17, Livingston told Republican colleagues he had "on occasion strayed from my marriage." He began with: "I guess I have been Larry Flynted." Flynt said Hustler had been working on tips about four women. "Frankly, we were getting ready to go with this story and are disappointed he scooped us." Two days later Livingston told Clinton from the floor: "You, sir, may resign your post." Democrats shouted back, "You resign!" Then he did. "So I must set the example that I hope President Clinton will follow," he said, and thanked his wife "for standing by me." That night he told the Los Angeles Times: "The president's actions were a breach of the public's trust. My actions were a breach of my wife's trust." Days later Flynt said Bonnie Livingston had asked him not to publish. "He's resigned, what's the point?" The case for Flynt: the next Speaker of a House impeaching a president for lying about an affair had affairs too, and admitted it. The case against him: he put a price on private lives, and by his own account he only paused when Livingston's wife contacted him. Was Larry Flynt exposing hypocrites, or buying their secrets?

Dustin Hoffman became a star playing a young man seduced by a married woman in The Graduate. In real life, he says, he had an affair with one, and her husband walked in with a gun. He told the story this week on Conan O'Brien's podcast, the day before his memoir "Look at Me" came out. He is 89. It was in his youth, he says: "I was having an affair with a married woman. And she thought that once her husband went to sleep, that he stayed asleep." He was invited over after the husband went to bed. "And there we are, having a festival of sorts. And he walked in with a gun." In the video below, he describes the next seconds. "He said, I remember what he says, get out, get out." "When you have a gun pointed at you, first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole." "His finger is on the trigger... I'm going to die. I'm going to die." Conan asks if he jumped out the window, or stayed to "continue the festival." Hoffman: "No." He didn't name the woman. Would you have told this story at 89?

King Charles told his married mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, he'd "just live inside your trousers." Then he joked he could come back as a Tampax. British papers printed every word. She asks if he'll come back as a pair of knickers. "Or, God forbid, a Tampax," he says. "Just my luck!" She calls him "a complete idiot." He goes on: "My luck to be chucked down a lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down." The call was in December 1989. He was married to Diana. She was married to Andrew Parker Bowles. On January 17, 1993, weeks after he and Diana separated, the Sunday Mirror and the People printed the full transcript. He was 44. In June 1994 ITV aired his interview with Jonathan Dimbleby. In the video below, Dimbleby asks if he tried to be faithful to his wife when he took his vows. "Yes, absolutely." "And you were?" "Yes... until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried." Dimbleby also puts the most damaging charge to him: that he was unfaithful from the start because of Camilla. He says "there is no truth in so much of this speculation." And: "Mrs. Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine. I have a large number of friends." On the marriage: "It's the last possible thing that I ever wanted to happen. I'm not a total idiot." Diana answered on BBC Panorama in 1995: "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded." They divorced in 1996. She was reportedly awarded a £17 million lump sum. He married Camilla in 2005. In May 2023 they were crowned King and Queen. King Charles: a man honest about a dead marriage, or a husband who cheated and still got the crown?

Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister. His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage. According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000. She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex. Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos. He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice. In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents. In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there. Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45. At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God." Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?

Jessica Hahn was promised $265,000 to stay quiet about a sex scandal with TV preacher Jim Bakker. Playboy paid a reported $1 million for the story. Then Joan Rivers told her: "Your brother should worry about who you slept your way to the middle with." Hahn: "You're a dried up old prune." She was a 21-year-old church secretary when she met Bakker in a Florida hotel room in 1980. He later described a brief affair. She told Playboy he forced himself on her. The deal came five years later: $115,000 up front and $150,000 in a trust she would get after 20 years of silence. The money came from viewers. It was hidden in a builder's construction invoices. Of the $115,000, about $20,000 reached Hahn. In 1987 the story broke and Bakker resigned from a $172 million ministry. Then a judge ordered the trust money back. She didn't fight it. "I never wanted that money," she said. "All I ever wanted was an apology." In 2017 she told a reporter she had read that Bakker was sorry, because he wrote a whole book about it. He had never said it to her. Jim Bakker died last month at 86. In the video below she asks Joan Rivers for that same word, over a joke she says Joan made on Howard Stern. Joan denies it. Hahn says she has the tape. Then Hahn holds up her Playboy, and it gets worse. Who went too far here, Joan or Jessica?

Farrah Abraham says Teen Mom paid her $25,000. In 2013 she sold her sex tape to Vivid for what she called a "seven figure settlement." That same April, she sat down with Dr. Phil and called the tape "my own video." In the video below, Dr. Phil asks if $2 million would get her to release it. Then, 13 years later, she tells a podcast host what MTV really paid. Her answer to Dr. Phil: "I think it would have to be more than that." She told Us Weekly she would not settle for less than "a couple million." On April 29, Vivid announced it had bought the tape. TMZ put the price at nearly $1 million. Her statement: "I am happy with the seven figure settlement I have reached." On the We Need To Talk podcast in August 2026, she said 16 and Pregnant paid her $3,500. Co-stars Catelynn and Tyler, she says, told her they made $10,000 an episode. She told them she got $15,000 an episode. "I just made it up out of spite." The tape? The host said the rumor was over a million. "Yeah, but that's not accurate. I still own it till this day." She says she later signed two live cam deals at $50,000 apiece to talk to fans for an hour. "I just said yes, I needed the money." In October 2017 she said MTV fired her from Teen Mom OG for being an adult performer. She sued Viacom for $5 million and settled a month later. The case for Farrah: by her account, a single mom on a hit show got $25,000, then set her own price. The case against: she called the tape private, sold it within weeks, and in 2013 said she had given the rights to Vivid. Was Farrah Abraham a teen mom MTV underpaid, or the best dealmaker the franchise ever had?

Chris Rock was 49 when he filed for divorce from Malaak, his wife of 19 years. The terms were sealed, but her share is estimated at around $40 million. This week, at 61, he told GQ what kind of husband he had been: "I was not a great husband. I watched a lot of porn." In the video below, GQ's Zach Baron has just asked why 12 years passed between the last two films he directed. Rock starts with the divorce. "Nobody has a successful divorce," he says. "You're not sitting on the money you had before. So now you got to really make some money." The divorce was final in August 2016. That October, Netflix reportedly agreed to pay him $40 million for two stand-up specials. The first one, Tamborine, was about the divorce. On stage he said he was addicted to porn and cheated with three different women on the road. "I thought, 'Ah, I pay for everything. I could do what I want,'" he told the crowd. The bigger earner pays the other side's legal fees, he explained: "I had to pay for a lawyer to divorce me. That's like hiring a hit man to kill you." Baron reads the list back to him. Rock doesn't argue. "I haven't watched porn in five, six years," he says. "It's not anything I'm proud of, but it's something I had to go through." His verdict on the man he was: "I was severely humbled, as I should have been." The case for Rock: nobody forced the confession. He put the porn and the cheating in his own special and owned it again on camera this week. The case against him: that confession was part of a deal Netflix reportedly paid $40 million for. Did Chris Rock's divorce cost him $40 million, or earn him $40 million?

Hunter Moore said his website made up to $30,000 a month. It posted nude photos of women sent in without their permission. He didn't count on one mother. Charlotte Laws spent two years building a case against him and led the FBI to his front door. In the video below, Moore sits on Anderson Cooper's couch in 2011, then faces Laws herself on HLN's Dr. Drew in 2012. The site was IsAnyoneUp. Photos went up with full names, locations and links to the women's social media. Moore called himself "a professional life ruiner." He told Nightline the site brought in an estimated $20,000 to $30,000 a month in ads. On Anderson, a woman whose photos were on the site asks him: is this about money? "No," he says. "There's definitely a market for it." Cooper tells him he doesn't have to profit off it. "I mean, but I want to," Moore says. "Why wouldn't I?" In 2012 a topless photo of Laws's daughter Kayla, then 24, went up on IsAnyoneUp with her name. Kayla had never sent it to anyone. Her email had been hacked. The LA police, Laws says, basically said Kayla shouldn't have taken the photo. So Laws gathered evidence from more than 40 victims and went to the FBI. On Dr. Drew, Moore said of her daughter: "I'm sure she sent the pictures to a million different guys." In 2015 he pleaded guilty. He had paid a hacker to break into email accounts for nude photos, once $145.70 over PayPal. The judge called it "particularly reprehensible" and gave him 2.5 years. The case for Moore: exes usually sent in the photos, and he says he "can't take accountability for what other people have done." The case against him: he paid for the ones nobody sent. Was Hunter Moore a guy who hosted other people's revenge, or a buyer of stolen photos who called it a business?

Elizabeth Holmes told investors Theranos would make more than $100 million in 2014. The SEC says it made a little more than $100,000. Theranos raised more than $700 million. Now a documentary about her last weeks before prison, "You Can See Everything," has made more than $60 million in theaters. In the video below, Tyler Shultz, the former employee who blew the whistle on Theranos in 2015, tells CBS Mornings she knew: "She created this whole web of lies." The SEC laid out the numbers in 2018. Investor binders projected more than $100 million in revenue for 2014 and about $1 billion for 2015. In August 2015, Holmes showed a potential investor 2014 net revenue of $108 million. The outside firm Theranos hired to value its stock got a different figure: a little over $100,000. "If you actually believe the hundred million dollar revenue, why would you then hide the financial statements?" Shultz says. He says she refused to show investors audited statements. Theranos was his first job out of college. His grandfather, former Secretary of State George Shultz, sat on its board. Tyler says the device the company actually used failed quality controls and was hidden from regulators, and patients were told they had cancer when they did not. In January 2022, a jury convicted Holmes of defrauding investors: wire fraud and conspiracy. She was sentenced to more than 11 years and has been in federal prison since 2023. The case for Holmes: she settled with the SEC without admitting the allegations, and she still insists she did nothing wrong. The case against her: $108 million on paper for an investor, a little over $100,000 for the firm valuing Theranos stock. Was Elizabeth Holmes a founder who believed her own projections, or a CEO who knew which number was real?

Bill Cosby was ordered to pay $59.25 million to a former waitress in March. In August, her lawyers told the court he hadn't paid any of it. A California civil jury found he drugged and sexually assaulted Donna Motsinger in 1972. She said he gave her wine and what she thought was aspirin. Cosby, 89, denies it and has appealed. In the video below, an AP reporter asks him about the allegations in 2014. "No, no, we don't answer that," he says. Then he asks that none of it be shown: "I would appreciate it if it was scuttled." The clip ends in 1991. On CNN's Larry King Live, he joked about the boyhood legend of slipping "Spanish fly" into a girl's drink: "The girl would drink it and... hello, America." Dozens of women have accused him. He was criminally charged only once and convicted in 2018. In 2021 Pennsylvania's top court overturned it on procedural grounds, citing a prosecutor's earlier promise not to charge him. He had served nearly three years. In 2022, a civil jury found he sexually assaulted Judy Huth in 1975, when she was 16, at the Playboy Mansion. Motsinger's lawyers cited bank records: in November 2025, before the verdict, proceeds from the sale of a New York town house were wired into a Cosby account, and within 48 hours $1.29 million went to other accounts, including friends'. In September, TMZ reported that lawyers for several other women suing him told a judge he had called off his deposition for the third time. His lawyers say he is too sick. The case for Cosby: he says any sexual contact was consensual, and his only criminal conviction was overturned. The case against him: dozens of accusers, two civil juries, and his own joke on national TV. Is Bill Cosby an 89-year-old punished for 50-year-old claims, or a man who still owes $59 million?