Angie Sanclemente Valencia (born 25 May 1979)[1] is a former Colombian beauty queen and lingerie model believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's largest drug syndicates.
In 2000, she won a Colombian national qualifying competition for the Reinado Internacional del Café (International Queen of Coffee) beauty pageant, but was dethroned two days later when it was discovered that she was married.
[5] She is alleged to have recruited other models as drug traffickers, whom she is quoted referring to as her "unsuspicious, beautiful angels," paying them up to around $5,000 (£3,200) per trip to transport cocaine from Argentina to England by way of Cancún.
[6] Valencia's alleged syndicate was believed to have been exposed on 13 December 2009, when a 21-year-old woman, "Ariel L", was arrested with a suitcase containing 55 kg (121 pounds) of cocaine at Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[13] Her story inspired the TV series La Diosa Coronada starring the Colombian model and actress Carolina Guerra as the character of Raquel Santamaría Cruz.