The trafficker spent the next eight years in high-security jails in Mexico, though his sojourn behind bars was reputedly softened by access to luxuries including good food and girlfriends.
Barely educated, though reputedly highly intelligent, Chapo rose to become a second-tier drug lord in the late 1980s, a time when Sinaloa-based Mexican traffickers were taking advantage of the new opportunities opened by the need of Colombian cartels to move their drugs through Mexico following US success at shutting down Caribbean routes.
They did not seem to care they were facing reputedly the best defence in the competition and it was a thrilling way to complete the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and now the trophy that means more to this institution than anything else.
Valencia is where the modern rules of chess were born in the 15th century when the queen – reputedly modelled on Isabel of Castile – was introduced to the board.
Knowing almost nothing about the reputedly gloomy French novelist, I went to see a stage adaptation of Nana, his portrait of a Parisian courtesan.
The 71-year-old former minister, who once reputedly had the power to crown state premiers, sat quietly in the back of the crowded courtroom with his hands clasped as the magistrate dealt with the routine assaults, affrays and robberies that preceded his matter.
Blazer is now known to have abused his position to fund an extraordinarily lavish lifestyle, with two apartments in New York's Trump Tower – one reputedly for his cats.
The capture of several reputedly close associates over the past couple of years, however, had begun to suggest his arrest was just a matter of time.
The ruin of Knowlton church, a few miles north of Wimborne Minster, is one of the most atmospheric places in Dorset, not to mention reputedly one of the most haunted.
Reputedly this is the year to be seen wearing Maxmara, and Arris is a discount outlet for the brand.
In truth, while Carlyle and son led an eccentric existence, in a succession of working-class bohemian communes in the reputedly rough area of Maryhill, Glasgow, young Bobby was happy.
