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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affaires of the Dominican Republic, although he was not recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Pursuit of Happiness | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Called "Flor de la Maffia" (Flower of the Black Hand), Agata came from a distinguished line of scoundrels. Father Juan Galiffi left Italy just ahead of the cops, murdered his way to control of gangland in Rosario, Argentina's second city. He prospered, sent his daughter to a fashionable school in Buenos Aires, planned a socialite wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Flower of Rosario | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Last week the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to Brazil stalked into the Foreign Ministry at Rio de Janeiro, delivered a formal protest. Subject: ribald Brazilian gibes (specifically, a ribbing story in O Globo) at an international marriage. The bride: nubile Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold) Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican Republic's Dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The groom: plump, baldish Brazilian Industrialist Antenor Mayrink Veiga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Flower of Gold | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Married. Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, onetime Boss-President of the Dominican Republic; and Dr. Maurice Marshall Berck, Manhattan surgeon; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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