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Praise for READY, STEADY, GO
· ‘Definitive ... a remarkable book. Levy succeeds in pinning down a volatile movement, constantly reinventing itself.’ George Melly, Guardian
· ‘A strikingly accurate portrait of an astonishing few years when the world suddenly went from grey to technicolor.’ Ray Connolly, Daily Mail
· ‘A compelling tale.’
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Praise for RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL
· ‘Scotch-on-the-rocks cool’ Loaded
· ‘A compulsive account of five men with America in their pockets – and the money, power and sense to bleed every last moment of fun out of it. An immense book.’ FHM
A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa – the Austin Powers of his day – 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 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 four 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, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Tina Onassis, and Eva Peron. He had worked as aide-de-camp to one of the most vicious fascists the century ever knew. He had served as an ambassador to France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Cuba, 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 including John F. Kennedy, Josef Goebbels, Juan Peron and Charles DeGaulle. He ran comfortably in circles of celebrity, counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy, David Niven, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Stewart Granger, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and fellow playboy Aly Khan.
He was respected for his ruthlessness, his athleticism, his panache, his frank hedonism, his dark reputation and his prodigious physical endowment. He lived for the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no children, 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.
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Descripción tapa blanda. Condición: Bien. Rubirosa, Porfirio 1909-1965, Diplomats - Dominican Republic - Biography., Bibliography, Biography The last playboy : the high life of Porfirio Rubirosa Fourth Estate. London. 2005. 24 cm. 356 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Shawn Levy . ISBN: 0007171064 (pbk.) (=2763551=) LS225. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2763551