https://www.facebook.com/WCPT820/videos/1306494013971961
I was interviewed today for the radio show, "Where Are They Now" from Chicago station WCPT.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
The Reason for Salt Lake City
In November of 1951, Jean and Alberto Valentino appeared in Salt Lake City, Utah. Why? (From The Salt Lake Tribune, November 25, 1951)
Columbia Pictures' movie, Valentino, starring Tony Dexter had just been released and Jean and Alberto showed up in Utah; a trip coordinated by their Los Angeles legal team incredibly still headed by Morton Feiler.
Attorney Feiler represented Alberto for many decades as well as working with Joe Schenck's United Artists. George Ullman made a claim in his 1975 memoir that Alberto's litigations against him were funded by Schenck. I vetted the memoir, researched the various lawyers and found Ullman correct; all were at one point or another retained by United Artists. More about that in Affairs Valentino.
So why were Alberto and Jean in Salt Lake City, “killing time” by watching Dexter in Valentino? If they both lived in Los Angeles at the time why Salt Lake City? Because the laws in Utah then were very clear on the subject of making a movie about someone's deceased relative. In Utah you had to have the permission of the family. Alberto was preparing his lawsuit against Columbia Pictures and director Ed Small based on Utah's strict law and filed his case with the court in Los Angeles the following April.
Sister Maria Strada filed her deposition from Italy and both Alberto and Maria claimed “annoyance” with the film, etc. etc. The case turned a profit for them and in October 1952, they settled out of court with the rumored damages awarded around $500,000.
Despite this victory, incredibly some 20 years later when Alberto was interviewed by Jeanne De Recqueville, he told her he only got pennies from his brother Rudolph's estate. But back in 1951, Alberto and Jean did not waste time hustling up to Salt Lake City to get on that lawsuit. Morton Feiler was on the job again and he must have made a fortune from Alberto because this was 30 years after he worked on Alberto's case v. Ullman.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Onward!
Although fourteen years have passed since my Rudolph Valentino biography, Affairs Valentino was first published, I still work to have the truth about the book's content known. The title has been stolen and used nefariously all these years without cessation and my late husband Renato and I have been accused of doing precisely what our detractors do to us.
Someone once suggested I change the title of the book to eliminate our enemies' defamatory associations which litter the internet. I replied, "Never". Onward!
I will be changing links and websites soon to consolidate the book's online presence and stand proudly before this true documentation of the life of Rudolph Valentino.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Hardly
https://www.zumayawinslawsuit.com/
David Bret has been posting at length on - https://www.datalounge.com and in doing so he is violating a court order by defaming me, my late husband and Rudolph Valentino's memory. He is posting his tired old lies about Valentino being gay and as one of the most homophobic people on earth he again wields homosexuality as his personal weapon to attack any critic of his worthless books.
He lost a defamation lawsuit I filed against him in Italy but apparently feels safe to carry on using his unforgiveable marketing of homosexuality in the most offensive ways. I would advise those who are unaware of this to realize he and his wife did show up in court to protest my attempts to collect on the damages he owes me.
Within the Valentino community he is a pariah and a sad joke who can not even comment or appear under his own name. He can fantasize all he wants to about Valentino but I will defend the research my husband and I completed over many years of hard work and stand extremely proud of our books as they are the documented truth about Valentino.
https://www.zumayawinslawsuit.com/post/2018/02/26/lawsuit-verdict-english
Sunday, January 12, 2025
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