María Isabel Santos was born María Victoria Henao Vallejo, on 1961 in Colombia. She is the widow of notorious Colombian Cocaine Drug Lord Pablo Escobar. They married in 1976 and had two children: Sebastian Marroquín (born Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, 1977) and Manuela Escobar Henao (born 1984). After the death of her husband on December 2, 1993, María, nicknamed by her family as "Tata", managed to flew Colombia, worried about her children's safety, and they moved to Argentina under assumed names.