***BOMBSHELL ALERT ***
Did Rudolph Valentino think Natacha Rambova was a lesbian? Yes. In the S. George Ullman manuscript Ullman wrote of a quick exchange with Rudy telling him Nita Naldi had been seen around New York with Natacha Rambova. Rudy turns to Ullman and (referring to Naldi) says "Dont tell me she's a lesbian too!" That means he already thought Rambova was a lesbian.
Sadly, you wont get to read that passage in the book marketed by Viale Industria Publications called "The S. George Ullman Memoir" Evelyn Zumaya, who wrote the foreward to the book is a fierce opponent to anyone who dares to question Valentino's sexuality. Certainly Rudy calling Rambova a lesbian threw Zumaya a curve ball. In 2009 Zumaya gave a public lecture on Valentino's sexuality and ripped apart two Valentino authors who's viewpoints on his sexuality differed from hers. At the time she received the Ullman manuscript she mistakenly thought she held the only copy, therefore she probably thought that she could quietly censor the lesbian paragraph out and no one would be the wiser. To me that stands as a true example of homophobia.
To think that Evelyn Zumaya who on her podcasts wailed about censorship of her book and even brought up book burning would, at the same time quietly snip the lesbian paragraph out and thus deliberately extracting a part of George Ullman's Valentino history. Would S. George Ullman approve of her deed? I would think not. I fully believe he would denounce both Evelyn Zumaya and her self-publisher "husband" Renato Floris.
