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New Book: Reading Rudolph Valentino's Final World

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6TBQZJK

One hundred years after the death of Rudolph Valentino, the story of his final months remains obscured by legend and rumor.

Drawing upon decades of archival research by Renato Floris and Evelyn Zumaya Floris, Reading Rudolph Valentino's Final World presents ten illustrated folios examining the people, places, documents and events which surrounded the actor during the last year of his life.

From a contested will and family claims to financial realities, the making and release of The Son of the Sheik, to the myths which arose after Valentino's death, each folio combines rare images and documentary evidence, inviting readers to step inside Valentino's final world and examine the surviving record for themselves.

A Meaningful Event

A note of thanks to Aurelio Miccoli, who recently shared an image from an event in Castellaneta in which actor Lino Guanciale, receiving a Valentino-related honor, concluded the evening with a reading from Il Mio Diario Privato, excerpted from the opening passage describing a journey back to his roots.

It is always meaningful to see this material continue to find a voice and an audience, particularly in Italy, where so much of this history still resonates and where Renato Floris' work in translating and preserving the integrity of these texts remains part of that ongoing record. 

My thanks to Aurelio for passing this along. 

The article maybe be read here: https://www.viviwebtv.it/articolo/aracnea-film-e-book-festival-lino-guanciale-incanta-la-platea-sotto-il-segno-di-rudy_107848

The Image via Facebook here: 

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A Memory

A slide show memory of our trip to Castellaneta, 

the birthplace of Rudolph Valentino some years ago. 

 

Images From Campbell's

 I am sharing some of the images from the Campbell's images via this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m8RNcUQKuiPB86au4UduiPqtExSDeIbn/view?usp=sharing

Some of the Contributions of Affairs Valentino

These are a few of things we contributed to the Valentino history... I will be adding to this but these are what comes to mind initially... for the record the following is but a partial list of the things we discovered:

1. The fact the S. George Ullman was exonerated completely by the California' Court of Appeals, that the money he owed the estate was money Alberto Valentino already spent which Ullman dispersed to him believing he was a rightful heir.
2. The entire story of Frank Mennillo and who he was.. 
3. That Rudolph Valentino was paying the monthly mortgage on Teresa Werner's home on Sycamore Street in Los Angeles.
4. That a second page of the will turned up missing which was, by the process of elimination, removed by Lou Mahoney.... Valentino was dead and Alberto was not yet in Los Angeles.
5. The documentation of who George Ullman was, what happened to him as a result of the estate disaster.
6. That Alberto Valentino claimed he lived in Turin... when there is no record he ever did.
7. That the entire case file of Valentino's probate records was stolen
8. That Ullman's Valentino archive was stolen from his garage and now those documents are appearing in collections which were purchased from the Bill Self estate.
9. That those missing court records were in the possession of Valentino collectors and the Valentino family.
10. That according to Alberto, Valentino tried to adopt his nephew Jean and failed.
11. That Valentino owned and operated a research laboratory, Cosmic Arts and all the business details of that enterprise.
12. That Natacha as the sole stock holder in Cosmic Arts, had control over Valentino's contracts.
13. That Valentino walked into the Emergency Room in the Polyclinic Hospital.
14. That Valentino's body was embalmed
15. That his shipping case was still in existence.
16. That Valentino smuggled Canadian whiskey into the US on the Mineralava Tour
17. That Joe Schenck funded Alberto Valentino's litigation v. Ullman
18. That the Valentino world is controlled by a vicious syndicate of liars/haters/bullies
19. That the story of Valentino's life is manipulated by collectors
20. That these collectors are willing to destroy people to elevate their status as collectors
21. That Valentino was not gay
22. That the entire Andre Daven as gay lover was a huge hoax and utterly false
23. That Daven left New York owing Valentino a fortune/35,000 francs
24. That Mennillo was Valentino's godfather
25. That it was Valentino who sent Natacha Rambova away... forcing her to sign away her role in his business..
26. That Ullman was an honest man.
27. The details of the day Natacha left Los Angeles and that Rudolph sent her away, etc. the signing of the documents and what they were.
28. That the Brothers Valentino had a rough relationship

I will leave it at 28 for this morning and continue with more as time goes on...