Pablo Escobar's Secret Affair With A Journalist. Dating is a dangerous affair. But a Colombian Journalist named Virginia Vallejo did it. She secretly dated the baddest of them all, Pablo Emilio Escobar, at the height of his ruthlessness and somehow survived to tell the tale. How on earth did she do it, you ask?

Well, let's go back to Colombia in the 70s and 80s.