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I have been travelling to Medellin for nearly 20 years and during that time I have witnessed the city’s mutation from one of the murder capitals of the world to one of Colombia’s booming cities. Unfortunately the years of evil and greed have marked this city for life, and the beauty hides a violent and disturbing criminal underworld.

When Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993 the Medellin cartel was left without a boss – and most of the assassins, traffickers and foot soldiers were left without a job. But soon, criminal gangs started to appear to fill the gap.

La Oficina – or “The Office” – is one of the most notorious groups that sprung up. They started literally as an office where anyone could hire a hit man. Years later they developed into one of the biggest criminal organisations in the history of Colombia. Today “The Office” is not only involved in drug trafficking but also in extortion, prostitution and human trafficking.

The narcos have always had an appetite for beautiful women. Money has never been an obstacle for them and in a city used to the flow of easy money, everything has a price.

‘Biggest brothel in world’

Escobar himself was known for paying thousands of dollars to have sex with models, actresses and even television presenters. Prostitution is not new to Medellin. A Colombian man once told me that “if you put a roof over Medellin it would be the biggest brothel in the world”.

When you are out in the city you realise why he said that. The back streets are full of prostitutes, both male and female. Many of them are incredibly young; smoking bazuco, a Colombian version of “crack”.

The place looked like the end of the world. On the corner you could see the gang members looking around, controlling the barrios.

After Medellin was “pacified”, tourists started to flock to the city looking for cheap drugs and for sex. Gangs like “The Office” realised the potential business they had in front of them.

Virgin girls

First they offer just girls, then for more money you could have underage girls and then the golden prize for those willing to pay: “virgin girls”.

I met several victims of the gangs but most were too scared to go on the record. Only one of them agreed to speak to us. She lives in one of the poorest barrios in Medellin. Her name is Maruja. She is in her early 30s but looks older.

Her daughter is just 14 and the gangs have already warned her that they have somebody willing to pay lots of money for her daughter’s virginity. She has no means to move to another barrio.

She feels trapped. Incredibly, she tells me that she also was a victim of sexual abuse when she was young. “They will have to kill me if they want to take my daughter, my life was ruined and I don’t want them to do the same to her.”

I wanted to meet the new generation of criminals in Medellin. They are not the type of people that like cameras or journalists.

It took several months of meetings to convince them to allow me to film them. Then one night two boys picked me up in a car park in Medellin and took me up to a barrio controlled by “The Office”.

The local boss – Chino – came out to a shop to meet me. We walked and talked about Escobar, the paramilitaries, Farc and the current peace process in La Havana.

Murdered dozens of people

Chino never met Escobar but he admired him. He was proud when he told me that he killed for the first time when he was just 13 years old. Now, he looked no older than 30 and says he has murdered dozens of people.

“I lost count of how many people I have killed, I don’t want to remember,” he said, while joking about how they dismember the bodies and dump them in the canal to leave no evidence.

“We don’t want to heat up the barrio so you won’t see any bodies lying in the street like before. We are still at war but you won’t see the weapons in the street.”

Chino is well dressed and has clearly been educated. He doesn’t look like a Colombian criminal from Hollywood; he looks more like a young raver.

“The product has changed but we are still providing services. Before we sent coke to the world, now the world is coming to us. They come here because they can’t get what we offer anywhere else.”

He is right. It’s a shocking new criminal world thriving in Medellin – with criminals formerly of the drugs trade now trading in women.

Questioning the Story:

Was Molly Bloom really a professional skier?

Yes. The Molly's Game true story reveals that, like in the movie, former freestyle mogul skier Molly Bloom had never made it to the Olympics, in part due to an injury. 'I was on the U.S. Ski Team,' Bloom said during an interview on Ellen. 'I was third in North America, and I crashed pretty horrifically on my Olympic qualifying run.' With skiing out of the picture, Molly still felt a great deal of pressure to be successful. Her brother, Jeremy Bloom, was a two-time Olympian freestyle skier who was also a professional football player for the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers. Her other brother is a surgeon who graduated from Harvard Medical School. To learn more about her injury and time as a professional skier, read her book, Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World.

Actress Jessica Chastain (left) in the movie and the real Molly Bloom (right).

How did Molly Bloom become involved in the world of high-stakes poker?While taking the year off between undergrad and presumably law school, Molly went to LA in 2003 and began working a number of different jobs, including as a cocktail waitress and an executive assistant to real estate entrepreneur Darin Feinstein, one of the co-owners of the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room (renamed The Cobra Lounge in the movie). One day Feinstein told her, 'I'm going to need you to help me run this poker game.' Molly went home and started Googling, 'What kind of music do poker players like to listen to?' and 'What do they eat?'
'I made this mix CD with 'The Gambler' on it and other really clichéd songs,' says Molly, 'and I had a cheese plate, and my cutest outfit, and I walked into this room and it was incredible. I recognized in that instant that this is not an opportunity that a girl from a small town in Colorado gets. There were Wall Street titans. There were billionaires. There were A-list actors, the most famous people we see on television, politicians, and they're all seated around this table playing this game that I didn't know what it was, but it seemed to be super compelling to them.' -Ellen
Is The Cobra Lounge a real nightclub?

No. In answering the question, 'How accurate is Molly's Game?' we learned that the real nightclub where the poker games initially took place was The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The club had been partly owned by Johnny Depp from its opening in 1993 until 2004. It was a popular celebrity hangout and is famous for being the location where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose on Halloween morning in 1993.

The movie's Cobra Lounge (top) is a stand-in for the real nightclub, The Viper Room (bottom) in West Hollywood.

Did Molly Bloom really get $3,000 in tips on her first night helping out with her boss's poker game?

Yes. The $3,000 in tips comes straight from her memoir. The money helped inspire her to fully embrace the world of underground poker. Like in t

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