Porfirio Rubirosa was a notorious Dominican diplomat and playboy. He raced sports cars, played polo, was married - very profitably - to a succession of wealthy socialites; he intrigued, and perhaps killed, on behalf of his patron, the dictator Raphael Trujillo.

He had many lovers, and was known throughout cafe society for his fine manners, rugged good looks, and priapic sexual endowment. He was the greatest mythic playboy of his age, the twentieth century's Don Juan or Casanova.

Rubirosa died in Paris in 1965, aged fifty-three, after crashing his car into a tree in the Bois de Boulogne.

"...Love, in its real sense, he never knew it... but ... to adopt before the world the position of a fortunate gallant and the talent to impress ingenuous heiresses, and useless wealthy and lazy parasites, he understood it by instinct" - Robt. D. Crassweller

Robert Stanton (Dr. Woody Mezmer)
Sam Tsoutsouvas (Narrator, Fred)
Robin Poley (Waitress, Pinkey De L'Arbre etal.)
Omar Prince (Kiki Vasellinou etal.)
Christian Baskous (Rubi etal.) Wrote, produced, directed and edited this project, and played many of the roles. Please visit the Christian Baskous Site of Sites for more info.

Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa is available for broadcast on your noncommercial, college or community radio station anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. You can license the whole thing or just parts of it RIGHT NOW via PRX (Public Radio Exchange).

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