Like many Cuban natives, the late Jose O. Padrón fled Cuba during the 1960s and settled in Miami. With just $600, he started his eponymous cigar company, hiring one employee who rolled cigars by day, ...

In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...

Florinda Padrón, the widow of late cigar mogul José O. Padrón, sold her waterfront Venetian Islands home for $6.1 million. Records show Padrón sold the house at 1335 North Venetian Way in Miami Beach ...

MIAMI — The name of Jose Orlando Padron evokes the aroma and image of some of the best cigars in the world. Padron, the founder of Padron Cigars, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Coconut Grove. He ...

On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, the cigar world lost one of its most respected patriarchs with the passing of José Orlando Padrón at the age of 91, a man who transformed his family surname into one of ...

Jose Orlando Padron lights up a cigar at Padron Cigars headquarters at 1575 SW First St. as the company celebrated its 40th anniversary in Miami in 2004. AL DIAZ Miami Herald file photo The name of ...