The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
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A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa 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, 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, Italy, 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 and Juan Peron. He ran comfortably celebrity circles, counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy, David Niven, Sammy Davis Jr., and fellow playboy Aly Khan.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. Shawn Levy – celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL, and READY, STEADY, GO – has been given unique access to primary material including FBI and CIA files in his search for the last playboy.
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Shawn Levy. The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
SHAWN LEVY. The Last Playboy. THE HIGH LIFE OF PORFIRIO RUBIROSA
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
THE LAST PLAYBOY
ONE. IN THE LAND OFTÍGUERISMO
TWO. CONTINENTAL SEASONING
THREE. THE BENEFACTOR AND THE CHILD BRIDE
FOUR. A DREDGE AND A BOTCH AND A BUST-UP
FIVE. STAR POWER
SIX. AN AMBUSH AND AN HEIRESS
SEVEN. YUL BRYNNER IN A BLACK TURTLENECK
EIGHT. BIG BOY
NINE. SPEED, MUTINY, AND OTHER MEN’S WIVES
TEN. HOT PEPPER
ELEVEN. COLD FISH
TWELVE. CENTER RING. RUBIROSA, SPURNED BY ZSA ZSA,TO WED BABS HUTTON TOMORROW
“DON’T DO IT,”HER FRIENDS WARN ALTAR-BOUND BABS
RUBI BLACKED MY EYE: ZSA ZSA
I SAID NO, SO PORFY POKED ME: ZSA ZSA
RUBI SEES BABS ON WEDDING
RUBIROSA HERE, WON’T’ TALK;NEITHER WILL MISS HUTTON
RICHES? “SOMETHING DIFFERENT”ABOUT BABS SENDS HIM, SIGHS RUBI
BABS WEDS RUBI–KEEPS MONEY/SAYS “Sí”AS DOMINICAN CITIZEN
RADIANT BABS YEARNS FOR A BABY;COUPLE PLANNING TO LIVE IN PARIS
RUBI MOVES IN HIS WARDROBE; HE IS STAYING
EVERYTHING LOOKS BLISSFUL AT PIERRE
MRS. RUBIROSA BREAKS ANKLE
RUBIROSAS CHARTER AIRLINER
RUBIROSAS FLY TO FLORIDA
RUBIROSAS SEPARATE
THIRTEEN. CASH BOX CASANOVA
“THE SKELETONS IN RED SKELTON’S CLOSET” “WHY SINATRA IS A TARZAN OF THE BOUDOIR” “ARE GALS MAKING GLEASON GO-GO-GO FOR BROKE?” “THE STRANGE ORGY OF SHELLEY WINTERS” “THE IMMATURE WORLD OF VICTOR MATURE” “OPERATION HOLLYWOOD: CUSTOM-TAILORED BOSOMS” “THOSE PHONY BEGGING NUNS”
“CASH BOX CASANOVA”
“SECRETS OF A SUCCESSFUL LOVER”
“THE GIRL WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO RUBIROSA”
“RUBI’S GREEK SECRET!”
“… UP IN ZSA ZSA’S BEDROOM”
“THE GLAMOUR DEB WHO MADE RUBI RUN”
“HOW RUBIROSA PROCURES HIS WOMEN”
“WHO DONGED THE DING-DONG DADDY?”
FOURTEEN. THE STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HOLLYWOOD
FIFTEEN. BETWEEN DYNASTIES
“RUBIROSA ROBBED AT THE PLAZA.”
SIXTEEN. FRESH BLOOM
SEVENTEEN. RIPPLES
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WITHOUT WHOM THERE WOULDN’T BE MUCH POINT
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The gravity of his father’s condition impressed Porfirio, who left Santo Domingo for Don Pedro’s side and applied himself sufficiently to his studies to pass his baccalaureate and find work teaching French in a local school. He kept up his soccer, he took up competitive swimming, he traded lessons on the ukulele for guitar lessons from his cousin Evita.
And he sat patiently as Don Pedro, his voice weakened, told stories of his warrior days and shared his worries over the seemingly permanent chaos of Dominican governance. Indeed, even as Santo Domingo prepared for what was being billed as a free election, a rebellion against the government was brewing in—where else?—the Cibao.
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