LANGSTON HUGHES: "GIGOLO/ASSASSIN-PORFIRIO RUBIROSA WAS A NEGRO PLAYBOY"

According to the late great Langston Hughes: "I remember an autumn day when I saw a crowd milling about an elegant Manhattan town house.  Suddenly, a door opened and a hush came over the crowd."

"Down the steps to the street in a straight back topcoat, with an elegant scarf at his throat, came a handsome suede-gloved very well groomed young light skinned colored man.  He was Porfirio Rubirosa."

"This was front-page international news, one of the most famous playboys of the Western World. And not white!"

"Considered the greatest lover who ever lived. He married two of the richest women in the world and dated one of the Kennedy sisters along with A-list actresses (including Marilyn Monroe) and numerous heiresses and in my opinion-he was a black man!"

In his youth Rubirosa was a handsome colored boy. In middle age he was still good looking, dashing and dynamic.

To Hughes, it was very obvious that Rubi was black-a fact that no mainstream newspaper mentioned and that was, indeed, never really discussed in his years of marrying rich and famous white women and running in the most elite circles in England, France and the United States."

For Hughes, his race made Rubi something of a wonder, an instance of a culture free of racial divides who managed to carry his birthright liberty into any world in which he circulated.

Rubi also circulated in Las Vegas, especially when his favorite two acts, Eartha Kitt (who he was involved with at one time) and Lena Horne (who he had never been involved with) performed.  He would often sit ringside at the Sands or the Sahara on the strip and blow kisses to the ladies while they performed.

Hughes added: "Had Rubi been an American by birth at the time of his death, the headlines would probably have read: "NEGRO PLAYBOY DIES."

At least one recent biography on the life of Porfirio Rubirosa openly describes him as Creole.

"GANGSTER PLAYBOYS WHO ENVIED RUBIROSA"

Some of Rubi's playboy rivals were gangsters and hit men, they envied and resented Rubi at the same time.

These raw thugs had deep ties to the most vicious sorts of power. Basically, they were ruthless murderers and thieves like Johnny Roselli, Pat DiCicco, Bugsy Siegel (above) and Johnny Stompanato (above).

These men chased and caught actresses, models and heiresses, often satisfying themselves with the thrill of the hunt.

Through their hands passed the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Thelma Todd, Virginia Hill and a white billionairess who has been linked to two black men (Gordon Parks, Sr. and Bobby Short-one of the most elegant black men who ever lived).

"INFAMOUS PLAYBOY"

As we reported before, the infamous Freddy McEvoy (right) had a slight resemblance to his best friend, actor Errol Flynn (left) that he helped him quash a statutory rape case against the actor simply by standing up in court and revealing the accuser to be unable to say who exactly raped her.

At the Stork Club, in Paris, on the Riviera and in London's West End, everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on the high seas, in the game-filled jungles of Africa and on the icy ski runs of Switzerland gave the international jet set a vicarious sense of adventure, and earned him the nickname Suicide Freddy. His zesty approach to business matters—he launched the fashion of flowered shirts for men by selling his own right off his back to an Argentine millionaire for $2,000—made him several fortunes.

It's been widely reported that McEvoy was allegedly a pimp at one time.

Freddie's first wife was Standard Oil Heiress Beatrice ("Bea") Benjamin, who, even after she divorced him in 1942, refused to revoke a trust fund she had settled on Freddy.

French Model Claude Stephanie, 26, was his third wife.  Errol Flynn was his best man at the wedding.

Heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck.

Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort was too much. Just as he reached his wife, Freddy's strength gave out. A great wave engulfed and drowned them both.

It's always been speculated but never proven that the yacht was allegedly smuggling arms or drugs when it broke up off the coast of Western Africa.

Source: Time Magazine, Photo Credit: Patrice Wymore Flynn Collection

"MORE ON INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS"  (RUBI'S PLAYBOY CIRCLE)

Francisco Pignatari was a Brazilian mining millionaire who dallied with a former queen of Iran and several A-list actresses.  He would eventually marry a princess.

Jorge Guinle, also Brazilian, inherited a hotel fortune. He was linked to actresses Jayne Mansfield, Janet Leigh, Anita Ekberg, Veronica Lake and Hedy Lamarr.

NOSTALGIA (SCANDAL SHEET)

Despite his alcoholism and numerous scandals, Richard Burton snagged Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia (first photo) and they became engaged.

She was devastated when she found Burton romping around Nice with Jeanne Bell (2nd photo), a black playmate/actress.  And that wasn't all, Burton was paying for Jeanne's son to attend an very exclusive overseas academy and he paid the rent on the villa he and Jeanne shared (away from prying eyes).

Burton begged for forgiveness and Princess Elizabeth took him back. 

A few days later, he was back in the arms of Jeanne and his engagement to Princess Elizabeth was off.

Photo Credit: Audrey Hart for Getty Images

Speaking of modern day playboys: P. Diddy, Floyd Mayweather and Ray J. were quite the trio at Tao last week.  Mayweather sat with a designer duffel bag on his lap, filled to the brim with $100 dollar bills but he didn't make it rain on the crowd and the security detail didn't let many people get near him.

"UNCONFIRMED RUMOR"

According to rumors, before Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, he demanded and earned $175,000 per show. Rumor has it: He no longer makes that amount per show, but less.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

R. Kelly returned to the stage in his native Chicago, Illinois for the first time since he was acquitted on child-pornography charges last year (08) and shared his underwear with fans.

During back-to-back concerts at the Auditorium Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday night, the soul superstar wowed screaming female fans with stunt striptease behind a screen-and then handed out his briefs.

The sold out shows began with Kelly ripping through a hits medley but a kinky onstage moment during which Kelly disappeared behind a screen and appeared to be stripping.

He then presented a screaming fan with his removed underwear.

Kelly also paid tribute to Michael Jackson, leaving the stage as home video footage of the late King of Pop was beamed onto a huge screen.

And there were tributes also to Kelly's mother and his hero Sam Cooke during an encore full of Cooke hits.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Rihanna has an amazing new keepsake-a book full of heartfelt messages from victims of domestic violence.  Website DoSomething.org invited beaten wives and girlfriends to write to them detailing their harrowing experiences "They put together this whole book with all these different letters and emails from all these girls all over the world."

Jet-setting star Mariah Carey flew her personal vet from Los Angeles to New York to help her dog deliver puppies-but the singer missed the birth because she was in London.

Rap superstar 50 Cent can't wait to offload his multi-million dollar property in Connecticut, because he has never felt "at home" in the sprawling estate.

Hollywood actor Danny Glover is set to wed his longtime Brazilian girlfriend next month, according to Brazilian media reports.

AFFLUENT REPORT: ($1.5 BILLION HOTEL)

The ultra-posh Mardan hotel is located in Antalya, Turkey and boasts 2,500 tons of gold, 500,000 crystals and thousands of square feet of Italian marble.

Built by Russian billionaire Telman Ismailov at a cost of $1.5 billion, a one-night stay in one of the Marden's 560 suites is $18,000 per night.

And what do guests get for that hefty price tag?

Remote controlled toilets, a "pillow menu" where the weary can choose the firmness of their pillows, gold-plated mirrors on the bathroom floors and access to a private beach created from 9,000 tons of silky, white sand imported from Egypt.

The hotel pool (above) features a sunken aquarium so guests can swim alongside fishes and toothless sharks.  The pool is 5 acres and it takes 30 minutes to get across.

There are 11 gourmet restaurants, one of which is stocked with Hermes crockery valued at $2 million.

Mariah Carey, Tom Jones, Sharon Stone, Paris Hilton and Richard Gere are frequent guests.

"LITTLE KNOWN-RICHEST MAN EVER"

Before his death in 1992, Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the world.  He made his fortune in shipping, he was also a multi-billionaire.

Howard Hughes, Aristotle Onassis, J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt were fabled billionaires who were written about often, with one exception, certainly the most secretive and the richest of them all was a man named Daniel Keith Ludwig.

His passion for anonymity was so great, after he appeared on the Forbes 400 Richest list (No. 1 spot) he paid a public relations firm a fortune to keep his name off the list and out of newspapers.

"STUDIO 54 TIDBIT"

Fashion designer Halston was known for his outrageous infamous parties.  Everything went on at these parties.

A photo was widely circulated of Bianca Jagger arriving to her birthday party riding a horse at Studio 54.  Halston threw that bash for Bianca.

But, what didn't make the news was a party (at 54-hosted by Halston) that featured black female and male models riding on horses-throughout the party, completely in the nude.

"NOSTALGIA GALLERY"

Quincy Jones' father had been a catcher with the Metropolitan Baptist Church team in the Negro Leagues, he even caught for the great Satchel Paige once.

Quincy's mother, Sarah Jones often had "spells" according to Quincy.  One day she stood by the window singing, ignoring everyone.  Quincy's father told her to get ahold of herself.  As he swept past, Quincy heard him mutter something.  He ran to his mother and told her, "Daddy's gonna send you away," but she acted like she didn't hear Quincy.

She just stood with her back to him, staring out of the window.

The next morning, Quincy's father came back upstairs with two ambulance attendants in white and one of them said, "Mrs. Jones, you wanna come get your luggage and things?"

She looked over at them without a word, one of them said, "Either you come or we'll carry you."

She finally said, "Can I take my bible?"  They agreed to let her take her bible.

According to Quincy, "Daddy never mentioned our mother after he took us to the hospital to visit her for the last time.  As far as he was concerned, he was done with her and she was out of the picture.  She escaped from there several times.  In the course of one escape she broke thirty windows in the hospital and bloodied her hands badly."

Once, she came to the back of the house and banged on the back door while me, my dad and brother were sitting at the table having dinner.  We looked out the window and saw her standing there in a house dress with no shoes, banging on the door with her fist wrapped in a towel.

Daddy said, "Go back there and sit down at the table."  We sat through dinner and listened to the banging until it went away.  It was freezing outside but the door was never opened.

Months later, a neighbor said she heard a knock on her door, she opened it to find Sarah Jones standing there.  She hardly recognized her.  She used to wear beautiful dresses and lovely hats but now she was wearing a hospital gown.

She said, "Have you seen my boys, Lloyd and Quincy?"  The neighbor told her she hadn't.  Sarah accused her of lying.

She came back several times after that, dressed oddly and talking strange.

According to Quincy Jones: After Michael Jackson's "Bad," was released, key members of Jackson's entourage, including his attorney, were whispering in his ear that Quincy had been getting too much credit.

Quincy adds: Michael's brother Jackie Jackson even told an interviewer that I wanted to take "Billie Jean," off the album, please!

And, Joe Jackson reportedly said, "Quincy ain't no damn producer. I know a producer who could have made "Thriller," for $25,000."

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EDITOR'S CUT: (A BLACK ESPIONAGE THRILL RIDE-GLOBALLY)

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Vail: (Black supermodel turned-intelligence broker/assassin-in-training).

Ryder: (CIA agent who went rogue/current enforcer and assassin for an illegal spider network).

Andreas Xavier: (The General of an illicit invisible empire named "Shadow Syndicate." This criminal conglomerate is involved in every illegal endeavor known to mankind.

Dominique Desiree: (Superstar attorney who unwittingly gets entangled in a web of deceit & deception).

Also starring: Jacks (CIA), G-Mac (Weapons Specialist), Dayna (HIV Assassin), Lear (CIA/Hollywood Fixer), Nikki (Freelance Assassin), Phelps (3-Charley/Sweeper), Lauryn (heads a cocaine banking cartel) and Cartier, (Former Black Hollywood drug kingpin/International Fugitive).

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"BLACK UNDERWORLD THEATER" (MOVIES)

Purchase (new or used) DVD's on black kingpins and syndicates: Including the infamous "Black Mafia Family." This organization grossed $250 million over seven years.  Learn about black kingpin Nicky Barnes, he ran New York in the 70's.  Rayful (Ray) Edmond introduced Washington, D.C. to crack while generating $70 million per month, he also had 150 soldiers on payroll.  Witness the true story of Alpo, Rich and AZ, the teenaged kingpins (16 & 17) who ruled NY; Alpo was the first black man in this country to drive a Lamborghini at 17. Their story was portrayed in the film, "Paid In Full."  Numerous other black underworld DVD'S to chose from.  Click here to get started: "Black Underworld Theater"

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"URBAN & ESPIONAGE CINEMA" (DVD'S)

A few of our new & used titles include: "Echo Of Murder," which focuses on the Atlanta Child Murders and an KKK link. 

"Cover," involves a downlow triangle that leads to murder, co-starring Vivica Fox. 

"Blind Faith," is centered in the 50's and deals with a homosexual secret that leads to the murder of a white teen at the hands of a black teen, Charles Dutton, Lonette McKee and Courtney Vance star, (VHS only). 

Executive Action gives you a glimpse into theories involving the JFK assassination, behind the scenes, explosive!  Morgan Freeman plays a hired killer (he and his kill crew) terrorize a man and son on vacation. 

"The Fixer," takes you inside the life of a fixer and his day to day duties.  Chose from these and other titles by clicking here: Urban & Espionage Cinema

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A few of our new and used titles include: "The Wall Street Journal," by David Kansas is the best book to purchase if you're new to finance and investing. This book is investing 101. It teaches you the language and also teaches you on how to read stock tables.  A must read for serious beginners."Why Should White Guys Have The Fun?" should be required reading for every African American on this planet. This book is so insightful and motivating. It tells the story of Reginald F. Lewis, my hero. 

The first black man who would have reached billionaire status if he would have lived; he was worth $500 million at the time of his death.  He was the first black man to head a law firm on Wall Street, he also owned TLC Beatrice, a global company worth billions and he's the only black man to have a building named after him at an Ivy League University (Harvard).

He was trying to purchase the Baltimore Orioles before he died of brain cancer. In this book, Lewis offers the keys to success and tells you  how he succeeded in international business.  "Investing For Dummies," is a good read for novice investors.  Click here to get started: Finance Bookstore

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Ballin 5-7, features: Jacks (CIA), G-Mac (Weapons Specialist), Dayna (HIV Assassin), Lear (CIA/Hollywood Fixer), Nikki (Freelance Assassin), and Phelps (3-Charley/Sweeper).

*Lauryn Allen (Cocaine Banking Kingpin) and her brother Cartier Allen (Black Hollywood Drug Lord) from the short story "Cocaine Banking Cartel," will be making a special appearance in Ballin' 7©.

You will be taken on an espionage thrill ride with a black shadow team of covert operatives from Dubai to Hollywood.

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