If the Mutiny’s walls could talk, they’d need a lawyer. During the 1970s and 1980s the nightclub and hotel in Coconut Grove, became the base for Miami’s cocaine trade. Beneath a glittering disco ball, drug kingpins from Cuba to Colombia made deals, the Hollywood set swanned in to dazzle and dabble, and the F.B.I., D.E.A., C.I.A., and I.R.S. all looked on. Everyone was brought together by the decade’s favorite drug: perico, blow, snow, cocaine.
The infamous haunt was the model for the Babylon club in Brian De Palma’s Scarface and is central to Netflix’s current drug-themed show Griselda, starring Sofía Vergara as the formidable drug lord Griselda Blanco, whose drug operation, at one time, moved $80 million worth of cocaine every month. She was so powerful that the drug baron Pablo Escobar confessed, “The only person I ever feared was a woman named Griselda Blanco.”
