Porfirio Rubirosa, the tragic end of the playboy and his Ferrari in the Bois de Boulogne
data-modal-image-caption=An outstanding seducer, diplomat, and party animal, the polyglot Porfirio Rubirosa spent his life surrounded by women. He is seen here with his fifth and last wife (on his left) , French actress Odile Rodin, and Shirley Arroyo, the wife of the Cuban ambassador to the United States, at a dinner in New York in November 1958. Seven years later, he was killed in Paris, driving his convertible Ferrari. data-modal-image-credit=ASSOCIATED PRESS> 
Every day, Le Figaro recounts the fatal car accident of a celebrity. Today, the story of the Dominican playboy, whose Ferrari 250 GT convertible crashed into a tree on July 5, 1965, in the Bois de Boulogne.
On July 5, 1965, the most beautiful women in the world were in mourning. Those who knew Porfirio Rubirosa intimately, Rubi to his friends, mourned the dandy who exhausted them in bed. Others regretted not having shared moments with this tireless lover whom Mother Nature had so advantageously endowed. As the writer Bruno de Stabenrath recounts in his biography of the great seducer, always dressed to the nines and with slicked-back hair. "Well before the Rocco Siffredi generation, it was whispered that a certain Rubirosa, who had just died, had left for posterity, in the great restaurants of London, Paris, Rome, or Miami, as an antonomasia, a giant pepper plant that had been christened "Rubirosa" in homage to the consequent majesty of his penis."
More than his diplomatic successes, it is this part of his anatomy that will make his fame, to which must be added the education and good manners of a boy from a good family. His father's diplomatic career, concentrated...
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