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  Porfirio Rubirosa
In 1935, a cousin of Porfirio, Luis de la Fuente Rubirosa, was accused to assassinate in New York the exiled Dominican Sergio Bencosme.
Rubirosa initiated the siege of Zsa-Zsa, arranging to her the most beautiful red roses he could get in the hotel.
Rubirosa stayed faithful to Ramfis Trujillo and the other civil employees of the trujillista regime when the dictator was killed by shots on May 30th, 1961.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Cinema/2892/rubirosa.html   (1580 words)

  
 The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
Porfirio Rubirosa - Rubi to his countless conquests and to grateful headline writers across the globe - stood head and shoulders above the rest of this international pleasure pack.
Rubirosa's first audacious move was to marry Trujillo's daughter, a potentially career-ending, or even life-ending, bit of chutzpah.
Rubirosa's marriage to Hutton lasted 75 days and netted the happy husband cash and property worth $3.5 million, enough to finance his polo ponies, tailored suits and lavish partiers for years to come.
www.iht.com /articles/2005/09/22/features/bookven.php   (709 words)

  
 Porfirio Rubirosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, (January 22, 1909 in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic - July 5, 1965 in Bois de Boulogne, France) was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and Formula One race car driver, but was best known as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and legendary prowess with women.
Rubirosa married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina on 3 December 1932.
Rubirosa soon got back into his former father-in-law's good graces, and continued to receive government posts until Trujillo's assassination.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porfirio_Rubirosa   (367 words)

  
 DR1 Dominican Republic Forums - View Single Post - Porfirio Rubirosa - Forgotten?
Trujillo gave two orders of elimination of Rubirosa, one prior to his marrying his daughter when he was a 2nd lieutenant in his personal guard and then after he divorced her (and beating her during their regular fights).
Rubirosa was born in 1909 and moved to Paris in 1915 when his General father was named Dominican ambassador to France during WWI.
Rubirosa used to say that if he ever died in a car crash, he hoped it would not be in a Lancia like Ali-Khan but in a Maserati or a Ferrari.
www.dr1.com /forums/318495-post1.html   (588 words)

  
 Porfirio Rubirosa - Definition, explanation
Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, (born 1909 - died July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and race car driver, but was best known as an international playboy for his jet setting socialite lifestyle and legendary prowess with women.
Rubirosa eventually met and married Flor de Oro Trujillo, the daughter of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina.
From Rome to Rio to Nassau to New York City and Hollywood, Rubirosa enjoyed the good life until the age of 54 when he was killed after crashing his Ferrari sportscar into a tree in the Parisian suburb of Bois de Boulogne.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/porfirio_rubirosa.php   (428 words)

  
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 Emblem of a Swinging, Wife-Beating Era - September 21, 2005 - The New York Sun
Porfirio Rubirosa was a "Latin lover" back in the days when the term suggested palm trees and romance instead of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
Between 1932 and his death in 1965, Rubirosa married five women, among them two American heiresses (Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton), two French actresses (Danielle Darrieux and Odile Rodin), and the daughter of one Latin American leader (Flor de Oro Trujillo).
Ribald waiters called their establishment's largest peppermill "the Rubirosa." In the 1950s, when serious newspapers were busy with the House Un-American Committee, tabloids quoted songs referring to Rubirosa as a "Ding Dong Daddy." I shudder to think what his nickname would have been were he a contemporary of Sir Mix-a-Lot.
www.nysun.com /article/20295   (719 words)

  
 Porfirio Rubirosa
Cautivado por la excepcional personalidad de Rubirosa, el escritor español, de 35 años, se decanta en esta obra por el género de la novela, ya que considera que es la "mejor puerta" para el entretenimiento que, además, permite "retratar a un hombre, pero también a toda una época".
Buscavidas en las callejuelas de Santo Domingo y París, Porfirio Rubirosa llegó a situarse en lo más alto de la "jet set" internacional gracias a sus dotes de seductor.
En vida, Porfirio Rubirosa jugó polo, piloteó bombarderos B-25, corrió ferraris en Le Mans, y buscó tesoros perdidos en el Caribe.
www.27febrero.com /porfirio.htm   (620 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa: Books: Shawn Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Porfirio Rubirosa is a name likely to be unfamiliar to anyone born after 1960, but he certainly made a name for himself in the 1950s--as a playboy par excellence--and his life story proves well worth the telling.
Written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality and the steamy atmospheres that he created and in which he flourished, Levy's complete reconstruction of his life starts with his childhood in the Dominican Republic as the son of a military man turned diplomat.
Rubirosa married a daughter of Dominican strongman Raphael Trujillo, later married a French actress, and then wed two fabulously wealthy American heiresses.
www.amazon.ca /Last-Playboy-High-Porfirio-Rubirosa/dp/0007170599   (665 words)

  
 DTM Magazine - The First Playboy…El Primer Tiguere
Porfirio Rubirosa lived a life of fast cars, and even faster women.
Always impeccably dressed and mannered, Rubirosa was a man’s man, but first and always—a lady’s man. He once told Sammy Davis Jr., “Your profession is being an entertainer.
Porfirio was born in 1909 in Cibao’s San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
www.dominicantimes.com /news.php?nid=206   (271 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa: Books: Shawn Levy
Porfirio Rubirosa is a name likely to be unfamiliar to anyone born after 1960, but he certainly made a name for himself in the 1950s--as a playboy par excellence--and his life story proves well worth the telling.
Written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality and the steamy atmospheres that he created and in which he flourished, Levy's complete reconstruction of his life starts with his childhood in the Dominican Republic as the son of a military man turned diplomat.
i heard of porfirio rubirosa from my grandfather, he was born around 1919 and below to the era, he knew porfirio, the trujillos and the whole gang, i remember my grandfather...
www.amazon.com /Last-Playboy-High-Porfirio-Rubirosa/dp/0007170599   (2130 words)

  
 A Musical Based on the Life of Porfirio Rubirosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A headstone with the inscription “Porfirio Rubirosa” is seen DR. A woman in her 40s, VALERIA, En from UR carrying flowers which she lays on the grave.
Rubirosa glides in amidst the applause; at his right arm hangs a stunningly beautiful young woman with a mane of very short blond hair and an even shorter fl skirt.
The spotlight is still on Rubirosa as he snaps his fingers and the band breaks into a fast-paced Tango set to the music of Death is the Face of a Woman.
www.galeon.com /ignoto/Rubirp.htm   (3640 words)

  
 Porfirio Rubirosa - Forgotten? - DR1 Dominican Republic Forums
It turns out that Porfirio was his uncle (his father's brother).
He related the story of when Trujillo called Porfirio in after he beat his daughter.
When Trujillo asked him why he beat his daughter, Porfirio responded that a Dominican husband was within his rights to beat his wife if she disrespected him.
www.dr1.com /forums/sankie-101/42586-porfirio-rubirosa-forgotten.html   (1597 words)

  
 THE BROOKLYN RAIL - THEATER
Poet, assassin, playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa speeds through the winding streets of Paris in his silver Ferrari, senses dulled by age and drink, time running out.
Rubirosa was famous for his fast living and scandalous love affairs—he was married seven times, including once to Zsa Zsa Gabor, and later to her sister Eva—though his lifelong union was with the Dominican Trujillo dictatorship, to whom he was always faithful.
Porfirio is led by a mysterious stranger through the sewers of Paris—past outdoor café’s filled with Parisians, past foreign legionnaires, past mosaics and ancient temples with ecstatic virgins.
www.thebrooklynrail.org /theater/july04/rubirosa.html   (876 words)

  
 Biography: The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy - Times Online
The Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa (1909-65) was possessed of such an attribute, but lived during a time when it was a widely and archly advertised thing of mystery.
The omission is all the more absurd given Levy’s final assessment of the publicity-seeking Rubi: “he had given himself over to sensation, he created sensations, he ended in sensation”.
Parisian waiters may still refer to over-sized pepper grinders as Rubirosas, but apart from that Rubi is a will-o’-the-wisp figure.
www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,2102-1769245,00.html   (981 words)

  
 Willamette Week Online | Culture | REVIEW | The Hustler In The Penthouse • Local film critic falls under the spell ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Levy's most recent book, The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa, chronicles the colorful life of Rubi, renowned in his day for his lavish exploits, not to mention his large penis.
In 1997, Levy first delved into the identity of "Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa." What he discovered was the captivating, larger-than-life story of a man famous for being famous.
Part of Rubirosa's fame, as Levy explains, was attributed to the Dominican playboy's legendary penis-a reportedly massive member once described as looking like "Yul Brynner in a turtleneck." But aside from his genetic endowments, Rubi was known as a polo player, race-car driver, jewel thief and gigolo.
www.wweek.com /editorial/3148/6800   (1057 words)

  
 Porfirio Rubirosa - Photos, Biography, Facts and Fans
Porfirio Rubirosa - Photos, Biography, Facts and Fans
Who's Dated Who feature on Porfirio Rubirosa including relationships, couples, pictures, biography, photos, pics, news, vital stats, commentary, forum, fans and facts.
I think it was a set up and he got killed by Dominican intelligence due to his relationship with the dictator Trujillo
www.whosdatedwho.com /celebrities/people/profile/porfirio-rubirosa.htm   (150 words)

  
 Vintage 1954 Photo, Ferrari 375 MM S/N 0380AM, stranded at 24 Heures du Mans
This is a vintage 1954 photo of the Ferrari 375 MM of Conte Innocente Biaggio and Porfirio Rubirosa, stranded on the sandbanks of the Tertre Rouge turn during the 1954 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
I believe it was Rubirosa driving the car when he ran it into the sandbanks, coming out of Tertre Rouge and heading towards the Hunaudieres straight on lap 5.
The car could not be retrieved from the sandbanks so the Le Mans adventure ended there and then.
www.experiencelemans.com /en-us/p_392.html   (214 words)

  
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His father is a diplomat sent to France by dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Young Porfirio, aka “Rubi”, grows up and is educated in Paris.
Upon returning to the Dominican Republic, he catches the eye of Trujillo,
www.rubirosathemusical.com /bio.html   (231 words)

  
 The jet-set escapades of a modern Casanova
Shawn Levy, who has written books on Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra, has found such a fellow in Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican dandy who tore up the international social scene from Paris to Palm Beach in the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
Furthermore, he was dashing: "sculpted, rugged and confident" with "a tight crown of wavy hair, a broad forehead, dark almond-shaped eyes, wide cheekbones and a cafe au lait complexion." To boot, there was his reportedly "superhuman endowment," which third wife Doris Duke called "the most magnificent" she'd ever seen.
It was so massive, Levy says, it inspired cheeky waiters to refer to their restaurant's largest peppermill as the "Rubirosa."
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/16/RVGUNF4DRC1.DTL   (686 words)

  
 The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy
The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy
And in The Last Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious Technicolor life.
"Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place…a perfect tribute."
www.harpercollins.com /books/9780007170609/The_Last_Playboy/index.aspx   (602 words)

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