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Sean Penn almost led police to drug lord El Chapo's lair after phone was tapped

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Hollywood star Sean Penn almost led the world’s biggest cartel boss to be captured after the pair’s phone calls were spied on.

The actor had been invited to a sit-down with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who wanted a blockbuster movie made about his life. But unbeknown to Penn, who visited the drug lord better known as El Chapo in October 2015 at his secret Mexican hideout, their calls were being tapped by US intelligence agencies.

The meeting had been set up by Mexican soap-opera star Kate del Castillo, who three years earlier had tweeted in support of Guzmán.

The post saw the billionaire Sinaloa cartel boss, 63, become obsessed with the actress, 47, who he then sent a mobile phone to so he could contact her.

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