Word: rubies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full career in the gossip columns long before he reached the financial pages. In the postwar years, taking up with a fast new international society, he ran around with Aly Khan, Rubi Rubirosa and Spain's auto-racing Marquis de Portago. Gianni's crowd gathered in Paris, London and Buenos Aires, at the Palace in St. Moritz, at his own 28-room villa at Beaulieu on the Cóte d'Azur...
...allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours Prêt" suggested, ever ready to supply affection. Rubi himself simply said, "I try to make women happy. A woman does not like to be pawed. She likes to be-uh-liked...
Women & Lies. His first chance to show how came in his native Dominican Republic with Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's 17-year-old daughter Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold). Rubi was only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa...
After a wartime marriage to French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Rubi in 1947 married Doris Duke, heiress to the $100 million Duke tobacco fortune. Doubtlessly out of respect for the bride's family, Rubi smoked a cigarette all through the ceremony in Paris (Doris provided the ring), but the marriage lasted only 13 months. Doris was, as he said, "extremely generous," and he went on to become corespondent in two society divorce suits and, in 1953, Husband No. 5 of Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton. Babs and Rubi flew aboard a chartered Super Constellation from Manhattan to Palm Beach...