Rendezvous With the Fat Man

In 1972, Jan Sherman was a beautiful 22 year old actress/stunt woman who fled the Hollywood ‘rat race’ by moving to the island of Ibiza. Her life changed forever after attending an eclectic party of expatriate artists and hippies when the hostess invited her to South America to buy and smuggle a kilo of cocaine. Jan knew nothing about the drug; what it looked like, how it was used, how to sell it or to whom. But the seductive lure of quick, huge profits to finance her travels around the world and a thirst for adventure convinced her to march blindly into the unknown - the ruthless, macho male dominated drug underworld. That decision changed her life forever.

In search of the ‘precious crystal’, Jan chose to live a secret double life while ‘acting’ as a freelance photographer during the decade of the seventies. It was her alternative to a 9-to-5 job. Luckily, it was before Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel and Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel took control of the cocaine trade. Otherwise she may not have lived to tell her story.

Jan was a fearless, “kick-ass chick” with balls, who followed her own path, surviving a coup d’etat in La Paz, mobsters in Lima and arrest in the Bolivian jungle. Her gut instincts were her guide to every dilemma she encountered on the ‘cocaine trail’. Most people were busted, languishing in deplorable foreign jails for years -- or worse yet, murdered. Jan Sherman beat the odds, netting seven kilos of cocaine worth $2 million today.