Vanilla Ice and Pablo Escobar used to hang out in the ’90s

Vanilla Ice revealed that he and Pablo Escobar would hang out in the 1990s, bonding over a love of boat racing.

Last Updated on December 29, 2023

Vanilla Ice

If you thought the Vanilla Ice and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pairing was weird, try this one on…Mr. Rob Van Winkle himself revealed that he was buddies with Pablo Escobar during the ‘90s – you know, the Colombian drug lord…Blow, ninja, blow, ninja, blow!

Vanilla Ice recently fessed up that he and Escobar – whose cocaine empire helped him amass around $30 billion – hung out on multiple occasions. But it wasn’t 2-XL or Battletoads that the fellas bonded over, it was speed boats. “[Escobar and his people] would take me in the helicopter, we’d go to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff that they were making. And I never questioned, we didn’t have Google. I don’t know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen. They like to race boats like I did.” (Vanilla Ice, as many know, was once considered one of the world’s best jet ski racers.) But Winkle plays innocent as to his dealings (for lack of a better word) with the king of cocaine, saying he wasn’t aware what Escobar did between 9 and 5. “This sounds ridiculous. First of all, like, I had no Google. You don’t go up to people and go, ‘What do you do for a living?’ I have no idea, bro. Guy’s loaded… And we’d go out and race boats, we were always on boats. There was always a bunch of bikinis floating around everywhere.” Let’s see if that gets into the biopic!

Vanilla Ice also said he made Escobar welcome in his Miami home. “We were all friends…They would land helicopters in my house constantly, on Star Island… Come into my house, I had food just for them in the refrigerators.” While we don’t know exactly what Vanilla Ice kept in his fridge for his guests, we do know Escobar was a lover of food, with his favorite dish being Piranha en Salsa Amazonia. He also “hated American products and processed foods.”

Vanilla Ice and Pablo Escobar are definitely towards the top of unexpected celebrity friendships. What are some other weird pairings? Give us some of your favorites below!

Source: Complex

About the Author

2578 Articles Published

Mathew is an East Coast-based writer and film aficionado who has been working with JoBlo.com periodically since 2006. When he’s not writing, you can find him on Letterboxd or at a local brewery. If he had the time, he would host the most exhaustive The Wonder Years rewatch podcast in the universe.

Logo

Looks like your ad blocker is on.

×

We rely on ads to keep creating quality content for you to enjoy for free.

Please support our site by disabling your ad blocker.

Continue Without Making Any Changes

Choose your Ad Blocker

  • Adblock Plus
  • Adblock
  • Adguard
  • Ad Remover
  • Brave
  • Ghostery
  • uBlock Origin
  • uBlock
  • UltraBlock
  • Other
  1. In the extension bar, click the AdBlock Plus icon
  2. Click the large blue toggle for this website
  3. Click refresh
  1. In the extension bar, click the AdBlock icon
  2. Under "Pause on this site" click "Always"
  1. In the extension bar, click on the Adguard icon
  2. Click on the large green toggle for this website
  1. In the extension bar, click on the Ad Remover icon
  2. Click "Disable on This Website"
  1. In the extension bar, click on the orange lion icon
  2. Click the toggle on the top right, shifting from "Up" to "Down"
  1. In the extension bar, click on the Ghostery icon
  2. Click the "Anti-Tracking" shield so it says "Off"
  3. Click the "Ad-Blocking" stop sign so it says "Off"
  4. Refresh the page
  1. In the extension bar, click on the uBlock Origin icon
  2. Click on the big, blue power button
  3. Refresh the page
  1. In the extension bar, click on the uBlock icon
  2. Click on the big, blue power button
  3. Refresh the page
  1. In the extension bar, click on the UltraBlock icon
  2. Check the "Disable UltraBlock" checkbox
  3. Marque la casilla de verificación "Desactivar UltraBlock"
  1. Please disable your Ad Blocker

If the prompt is still appearing, please disable any tools or services you are using that block internet ads (e.g. DNS Servers).