Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player.

[4] Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was born in 1909 in San Francisco de Macorís, the third and youngest child of an upper-middle-class Criollo family.

His father, also a womanizer, was at one time a "general" of a militia of heavily armed men working with the government in the mountainous Cibao region.

[7] Their relationship lasted throughout their lives, went up and down, mostly close, but not without episodes of danger for Rubirosa, and defined his professional career when he became a diplomat of the Dominican Republic in 1936.

[9] After he lost his diplomatic immunity, he was questioned by the New York District Attorney concerning the disappearance of Trujillo opponents Sergio Bencosme in 1935 and Jesus Galíndez in 1956, but was never charged.

[citation needed] Rubirosa was linked romantically to Dolores del Río, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe,[10] Ava Gardner, Maria Montez, Rita Hayworth, Dorothy Dandridge, Lupe Vélez, Soraya Esfandiary, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Joan Crawford, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Judy Garland, Eva Perón and Amália Rodrigues.

His reputedly larger than average penis size inspired Parisian waiters at Maxim's to name gigantic pepper mills "Rubirosas".

[14][15] A high relief, life-size reproduction of Rubirosa's swollen tool features among the artworks of the Saint Fracasso church in Velletri, near Rome, where it is worshipped by church-goers suffering from erectile dysfunctions.

[citation needed] After World War II, Rubirosa became engaged in two major passions, polo and car racing, both expensive sports that would be supported in years to come by his wives.

[18] Rubirosa died in the early morning of July 5, 1965, at the age of 56, when he crashed his silver Ferrari 250 GT cabriolet into a horse chestnut tree in the Bois de Boulogne after an all-night celebration at the Paris nightclub "Jimmy's" in honor of winning the polo Coupe de France.