A documentary about the incredible real-life story of Porfirio Rubirosa, the most notorious playboy who ever lived.
It is said he was the greatest playboy who ever lived.
He was a ladies' man and a man's man. He married and loved some of the richest and most beautiful women in the world, from Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke to Za Za Gabor. He rubbed shoulders with John F. Kennedy, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, Juan Peron, Fulgencio Batista, as well as Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and pretty much everyone in Hollywood.
He was among the first to be famous just for being famous, and the tabloids could not get enough of him. They linked him romantically to Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Maria Montez, Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Judy Garland, and even Eva Peron, to name just a few.
He lived some of the most incredible decades of our recent history and bore the scars to prove it: from barely surviving the bombing of Paris in World War I, to getting shot in the Nazi invasion in World War II, and being hunted by Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution. He was a prolific dancer, singer, fencer, race car driver and especially polo player. He was accused of being a spy, a thief, a murderer and a treasure hunter, yet he never worked a day in his life.
He inspired countless other playboys and thrill seekers, and some claim he was one of the possible inspirations for James Bond. One of his wives, famed actress Danielle Darrieux, said after his untimely death in a car crash in his Ferrari: "Rubi lived as he died: fast and furious."
How did a man born in a small village in the Dominican Republic rise to become possibly the most notorious playboy who ever lived? This is his incredible true story.
