One of his wives was tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Porfirio was her second husband, She paid Rubirosa's wife $1,000,000 to give him a divorce, and he got a prenup agreement that gave him millions of dolars, a sports car and even a converted B-25 bomber.
The marriage lasted from 1947 until 1951m and Doris never married again. She was six feet tall, by the way.
If you are in Honolulu, you need to see her home there, Shangri-La, which has a huge collection of Islamic art.
He was born in San Francisco de Macoris, but grew up in Paris.
Rubirosa was linked romantically to Dolores del R?o, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe,[8] Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Soraya Esfandiary, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Joan Crawford, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Judy Garland, and Eva Peron.[8] He dallied with his ex-wife Flor de Oro Trujillo Ledesma during his marriage to Doris Duke, and with Zsa Zsa Gabor during his marriage to Barbara Hutton. He was named a co-respondent in at least two divorces, the wives charging adultery in each case.
He was the walking definition of the word "Playboy", perhaps the ideal that Hugh Hefner was thinking of when he namend his magazine
