Porfirio Rubirosa on Biography Channel

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For anyone that has an interest in DR history, you may want to tune into the Biography Channel. They have been running a piece on Porfirio Rubirosa.

I never heard of this guy before today. He appears to have been the original mega-Sanky, and was quite an intriguing fellow on the world stage.

Biography Channel in Santo Domingo with Sky is channel 256. Happy viewing. :bunny:
 
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You had a wrong concept about Rubirosa, this guy is considered a "play boy" as he dated lot of the prettiest and richest women around the world thanks @ his fellowship for Trujillo.

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He used to party with Ramfis Trujillo in Los Angeles. I read that some time ago. Where they would go to parties with Hollowood stars and date them.
 
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I remember hearing his name a lot when I was a kid, to me [at that time] he seemed so handsome and worldly. He was called a playboy, but if you stand back and look at his 'conquests' and the financial rewards he stacked up, Toober isn't so far off when he calls him a mega-sanky. Apparently he was also famous for being 'well-endowed'. First link calls him a gigolo - which is kind of a sanky in Italian:cheeky:

Most Notorious Gigolo/Playboy
Porfirio Rubirosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rubirosa, Man of Pleasure: Elegant, Charming, Worldly, Big | The New York Observer
PORFIRIO RUBIROSA | LAST OF THE FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS ? The Selvedge Yard

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I remember when they called those big Pepper Mills that they have in fancy restaurants 'the Rubirosa', as they were supposed to approximate his 'endowment'. I think its fair to call him the first 'sanky'.
 
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I doubt he would be the first Sanky as famous women lined up to go to bed with him. Dude was a playboy not a "sankie". He had Trujillo's blessing behind him so he already had power before meeting all those women, including Zsa Zsa Gabor.
 
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ExtremeR said:
I doubt he would be the first Sanky as famous women lined up to go to bed with him. Dude was a playboy not a "sankie". He had Trujillo's blessing behind him so he already had power before meeting all those women, including Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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And you don't think dumb women from around the world line up for the sankies today? Sankies aren't looking for power - they want money! From wikipedia: Duke (whom he married on September 1, 1947) and Hutton (whom he divorced just 53 days after their December 30, 1953, wedding) made him wealthy: Duke gave him $500,000, a stable of polo ponies, several sports cars, and a converted B-25 bomber, and gave him a 17th Century house in Paris in the divorce settlement; Hutton bought him a coffee plantation in the Dominican Republic, another B-25, and paid him a reported $3.5 million in their settlement.

Not bad pay for 53 DAYS of wedded bliss.

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Yeah, but I really don't think renowned world famous actress will even give a sankie the time of the day. Ask your husband if he believes Rubirosa was a sankie. Au contrarie, every man in the world wishes he accomplishes half of what Rubirosa did.
 
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ExtremeR said:
Yeah, but I really don't think renowned world famous actress will even give a sankie the time of the day. Ask your husband if he believes Rubirosa was a sankie. Au contrarie, every man in the world wishes he accomplishes half of what Rubirosa did.
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No doubt Rubirosa was in a class of his own.

Not long ago I brought up the word sankie in a conversation - our son [31] knew precisely what I meant, and my husband didn't have a clue. Son was exasperated with his father, haha. I guess they didn't exist when he lived there. Hmmm... well, he did work only at hotels/casinos in SD, so they probably existed - but maybe called something else back then?

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