Word: rubirosas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominican Playboy Porfirio ("I just try to make women happy") Rubirosa, 47, seemed afflicted by true love. In his legal partnerships so far, Rubirosa has always poorly concealed the practical methods that leavened his romantic madness...
Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa moseyed into Bogotá, Colombia to make preparations for a genuine treasure hunt. Bracing himself for his safari's plunge into the Choco wilds on Colombia's Pacific Coast, Rubi, out to make the jungle give up some platinum and gold, first tested his luck at a race track, won a cool 9,600 pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia...
After a prosaic civil ceremony in the city hall of Versailles, pale, black-browed Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much...
Aging Hungarian Temptress (turned Manhattan jeweler) Jolie Gabor sadly announced the disengagement of her daughter, heartbreaking Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, from heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week...
Divorced. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionairess who likes to stay indoors all day; by Porfirio Rubirosa, 46, Dominican playboy who likes the outdoors; after 16 months of marriage (all but 77 days of it in separation); on grounds of incompatibility; in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic...