At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was
known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were
written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave
their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty,
particularly when it came with great wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris
Duke, Eva Peron, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But he was a man's man as well,
polo player and race-car driver, chumming around with the likes of
Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King
Farouk. He was also a jewel thief, and an intimate of one of the
world's most bloodthirsty dictators. And when he died at the age of
fifty-six--wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de
Boulogne--a glamorous era of white dinner jackets at El Morocco and
celebrity for its own sake died along with him.
He was one of a kind, the last of his breed. And in The Last
Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and
utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious
Technicolor life.
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