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 ожомш 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 fur 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 cntury 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 incluing 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 , an He lived for the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no childre, 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 Confidentil", and "Ready, Steady, Go" - has been given unique access to primary material including FBI and CIA files in his search for the last playboy. Диск упакован2006 г Мягкая обложка, 368 стр ISBN 0007171072. |