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Rudolph Valentino

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Rudolph Valentino: Biography

Birth Name: Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaele Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla
Birth Place: Castellaneta, Italy
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/06/1895, Taurus
Date of Death: 08/23/1926
Profession: Actor

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Rudolph Valentino Fast Facts:

Worked as a taxi dancer, a male escort who is hired as a dance companion by women.
Published a best-selling book of poetry called Day Dreams in 1923.
Arrested for bigamy in 1922 because he didn't know of the California statute that required a divorced person to wait one year before remarrying.
When a 1926 Chicago Tribune editorial questioned his manhood, he responded by challenging the writer to a boxing match. It never took place.
After suddenly dying at 31 of peritonitis and septic endocarditis, an estimated 80,000 women visited the New York funeral home where his body was being viewed.
Left ex-wife Natacha Rambova $1 in his will.
In the 1930s, his silhouette adorned packages of Sheik condoms.
Featured on a commemorative U.S. postage stamp issued in 1994.

Rudolph Valentino Relationships:
Jean Acker - Ex-wife
Natacha Rambova - Ex-wife
Giovanni - Father
Alberto Guglielmi - Brother
Maria - Sister
Marie - Mother
Beatrice - Sister
Pola Negri - Significant Other

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