Affairs Valentino - It's A "Dirty Diaper" Around Her Neck... And It Stinks

                        These are my own copies of the books.  Photo taken today.  None fell apart.
                     I ask you - why would I be against others buying the book if I am buying it myself?



However proud she claims she is of the infamous "Forewarning" I would offer the opinion that since it's publication it has continued to haunt her and hang around Evelyn's neck with all the dignity of a smelly, dirty diaper. And it remains there.  It ruined her credibility. Absolutely. She will boast otherwise, of course, but trust me, I speak the truth.    Yet she deliberately thrust this "Forewarning" onto the world. Truth be damned.

Let me be clear -  I have and continue to have NO opposition to her book.  The ONLY thing I ever was opposed to is the Forewarning.    Everyone - including her is fully entitled to have their work out there. As it should be! I don't know a single person who is against the book. None!  The Forewarning? Yes.  The book? No.

Yet Evelyn harped on about it was 'the book they don't want you to read'. That she had death threats and was in hiding because of her bravery to tell this story.  No, No. No. God, will you ever tell the truth, woman?

Again, I was against the "Forewarning"  I have said it over and over, yet Evelyn Zumaya wears the pity-party hat rather proudly albeit foolishly.  She attempts to deceive the web readers with her lies that I wrote negative reviews.  NO, I did not.  And I don't lie.  Evelyn Zumaya would be unable to show you a single thing I personally wrote about the book - outside the Forewarning, because I haven't.  I did, jokingly say the book was pure fiction but I was only referring to the reams of created fictional dialogue she created for the book, not the book itself.  I truly believe it was detrimental to her book.  I do not go against peoples books.  In fact, I purchased both of Evelyn's books - the embarrassing telephone book sized first edition, as well as the newer, 2nd edition.  I also bought the Companion Guide book.   You haven't heard me say a peep negative about any of that. Why would I?

What do I think of Evelyn as a person?   Anyone who would write something like the vile Forewarning isn't a nice person. Not by a long shot. I waited ONE whole year to personally say anything about my Court case. A whole year. The only reason I started to write, after a year is that on this very blog she was hammering away untruths about me and my court case, uncontested.   LET THAT SINK IN ON WHAT SHE WAS DOING - I felt I needed to say what really happened.  Trust me I asked myself then - and now -  WHY was she even involving herself in it? It had nothing to do with her.    Anyways, the night I created and posted the first entry onto "Valentino Wept" saying I would be telling the truth and laying it all out.  On  the very next morning Evelyn Zumaya  saw fit to mock me as being 'oh how maudlin' and Evelyn created another blog called "Valentino Laughed"  the very next day!

Please keep in mind that even earlier she had created a blog called Valentino Speaks where - you guessed it she attacked me by saying things about me that were absolutely not true.

Lastly, lets not forget her Christmas video which she created a venomous hate filled Christmas "rhyme" poem video all about me that she read over a video of the Christmas song It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. She posted that on Youtube.  This, from a woman I have never met, nor spoken a single word to.

Evelyn is a victim?  Oh really? Please tell me why she's created blogs of hate including this very blog, at one point to attack me. She's created videos to attack me.  She put me in the Forewarning of her book as a Valentino Cult Leader who people feared might shoot them in the back of the head at a Valentino screening.  I kid you not it's in the 'Forewarning'.   All this and MORE has poured from the pen of Evelyn Zumaya who  - says she's PROUD of everything she's written.

I'll leave you with that.

Dreadful: A Critique of Jeanne De Requeville's English Translation Book "Rudolph Valentino"

Say what you will, this is just a sad affair all around.  The 'Publisher' who's native tongue is Italian is now translating a book in two languages not in his normal realm. It doesn't even matter.

The original book is about 2/3 fictional dialogue and would be considered an embarrassment to anyone who reads it.  It's no wonder this book is seldom quoted or sourced in ANY book about Rudolph Valentino.  It is awash with errors.

                                     The original version, left and the new reprint, right

Aside from a mountain of errors, let me make clear that this book is pure pablum. You will learn nothing new at all.

Examples of errors that the original author made and the "editor" Evelyn Zumaya, of the new edition didn't catch: (Keep in mind the 'editor's' sole role in this project was to make footnotes to point out errors or clarifications)

On page 25 on the 2nd paragraph the name Jean Acker is spoken.  Yet in the very next paragraph she is noted as "Joan" Acker.    Huh???

On Page 27 Jeanne, when talking about the movie The Married Virgin saying "they glue a monocle on his right eye and draw a thin mustache... he smokes a big cigar which contributes to his characters unpleasant appearance"  In truth in the movie the Married Virgin he uses NO monocle nor does he sport a mustache. In confusion the author is remembering "Isle Of Love'  Yet, Zumaya did not grasp  De Requeville's error nor make any 'footnote' of it. This is quite noteworthy because it exposes Zumaya's lack of Valentino knowledge early on.

 Rudy as he appeared throughout in 'The Married Virgin'. Do you see a monocle or mustache?

Rudy in 'Isle of Love'  How much research would it have taken for Evelyn Zumaya to right this wrong in the original edition?

On page 36 Evelyn Zumaya continues to misspell the street name of his home in Whitley Heights. I called her out on this some time ago, so you'd think it would be on her radar, but no.  Wedgewood is still misspelled as "Wedgwood"  This is the simplest of fixes.  This is noteworthy of how 'scholarly' this woman is.  She is NOT.

On page 48 The original author has Rudy filming Beyond The Rocks after the Rambova wedding, yet truth be told, Beyond The Rocks was released on May 7 and the marriage was on May 13th.  Some thing is wrong with her math! Does Evelyn Zumaya catch this error or make a foot note about it? NO.

Another error by Evelyn Zumaya is on page 53 footnote #100 which Zumaya says they were married on the first day of the tour.  No!  Tour's first date was March 17 in Omaha NB, NOT Crown Point where they were married in Indiana.

On page 87 Footnote #173  Evelyn Zumaya turns on the original author in a vicious way.  She says her comments are a "cruel invention of the author" Ouch.  The reason?  The original authors negative comments about Natacha Rambova. Oh, whats this?  Zumaya is selling a book about Rambova? Thus the snarky footnote #173.  Got it.

On page 127 the author says he was wearing slave bracelet in death and will take it to the grave.  Evelyn Zumaya makes NO effort to dispute this.   Maybe she doesn't know?

Page 131  The author says George Ullman and Charlie Chaplin were pall bearers at the Saint Malachy funeral. Charlie Chaplin was a pall bearer at the West Coast funeral held at the Church of the Good Shepherd.  Ullman was never a pall bearer. Did Evelyn Zumaya even notice this error?  There is no 'footnote' in the book, so I have to believe this went over her head. SAD.

Page 133    Alberto did not pay for burial spot.  B of A (as administrators) paid $800 on March 24, 1933. In the book it says it says this happened in 1936.  This is untrue. Evelyn Zumaya once again shows her lack of facts.

Page 179  Aspiration Statue  unveiling  The author says that Pola was there; "Pola Negri was asked to honor the event with her presence in a intimate ceremony which included about 10 photographers.  Pola came running, delighted to pose while she was removing the drape which covered the statue "

FACT:  it was actually Delores Del Rio who unveiled the Aspiration statue.  Not Pola.  In fact Pola was not even in the USA in 1930,  All of this was lost on Evelyn Zumaya.  She's scholarly?

Delores unveiling the Aspiration statue

Lets wrap up this mess with Frank Mennillo.   Author Jeanne De Recqueville mentions Mennillo ONCE.  Yet, due to footnotes by Evelyn Zymaya he is mentioned an astounding 13 times within the book!  In the index Mennillo is listed as being on pages 17, 19, 56, 109, 119-120.   The index is faulty - It doesn't mention Mennillo is also on pages 15, 121, 128

This book is a joke.   35% fictional dialogue and shows Recqueille is another yawn in the early bios of Rudy.  Who asked for this to be translated and reprinted?  There is nothing truthful nor any insight to be had.  They are charging $39 on Amazon.  Do you think this is a fair price?