A few more pages (below) from the file of Valentino's probate court records I recovered...here a total accounting of the items Valentino's manager and executor George Ullman permitted Valentino's sister Maria Guglielmi Strada to remove from Falcon Lair. Bear in mind, after Paragraph Fourth was found and admitted as a legitimate portion of Rudolph Valentino's will, George was held financially responsible to pay the Valentino family/Alberto and Maria the cash value of those items he advanced to them in good faith.
As Alberto claimed throughout his life that he and his sister only received “sentimental items” of no value and “pennies” I think this casts those statements in a more honest light. The total of the value of the items Maria received was $3428.00 (by today's currency exchange rate x 13.3 this would be $45,592.40) plus the cash advanced before 1930 to Maria @ $6058.33 by today's exchange would be $80,275.78) with a total on record between items and cash to Maria @ $9,486.33 by today's value $126,168.19.
I am also sharing a few more pages of the testimony of George Ullman which I found interesting as it reveals a great deal about the business of Rudolph Valentino at the time of his death in 1926.
