A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly
crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa
-- the Austin Powers of his day -- from the celebrated author of
RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL. The Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa died
at 8:00 am on July 5, 1965, when he smashed his Ferrari into a tree
in Paris. He was 56 years old and on his way home to his
28-year-old fifth wife, Odile Rodin, after a night's debauch in
celebration of a victorious polo match. In the previous four
decades, Rubirosa had on four separate occasions married one of the
wealthiest women in the world, and had slept with hundreds of other
women including Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ava Gardner, Jayne
Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Tina Onassis, and Eva Peron. He had
worked as aide-de-camp to one of the most vicious fascists the
century ever knew. He had served as an ambassador to France,
Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Cuba, Argentina, and Vichy. He
had been a jewel thief, a forger, a shipping magnate, a treasure
hunter. He had held his own with the world's most powerful and
notorious men including John F. Kennedy, Josef Goebbels, Juan Peron
and Charles DeGaulle. He ran comfortably in circles of celebrity,
counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy, David Niven,
Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Stewart Granger, fashion designer
Oleg Cassini, and fellow playboy Aly Khan. He was respected for his
ruthlessness, his athleticism, his panache, his frank hedonism, his
dark reputation and his prodigious physical endowment. He lived for
the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no children,
no fortune, no entity -- financial, cultural, even architectural --
that bore his name. There will never be anyone else like Porfiro
Rubirosa. Indeed, the really amazing thing is that there ever was.
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