Ramfis Trujillo Profile

Ramfis Trujillo

	(Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Martinez)
5 June 29	is born in San Isidro, Dominican Republic, the illegitimate child of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina and his mistress Maria Martinez Alba. Trujillo’s a former telegraph operator and cattle rustler and will seize power in the Dominican Republic in 1930; she’s the daughter of a baker and is married to Rafael Dominicis, a Cuban. Among Ramfis’ many half-siblings is his father’s first daughter from his first marriage, Flor de Oro.
c. 32	at age 3, his father makes him a colonel in the Dominican Army at a salary of $350 a month
3 December 32	his half-sister Flor de Oro marries young Dominican officer and diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, becoming the first bride of the upcoming internationally renowned playboy
28 September 35	his father marries his mother, who becomes his third wife, finally making Ramfis legitimate
36	his half sister Odette is born in Rouen, France, to his father’s former, second wife, Bienvenida Ricardo
?	his half-sister Elsa Julia is born out of wedlock to his father and a woman named Bermudez
?	his half-sister Bernadette is born out of wedlock to his father and an American woman from Puerto Rico named Maynard
c. 38	is promoted to brigadier general at age 9
6 March 39	arrives in New York from Cap Haitien, Haiti, aboard the Santa Paula
Summer 39	is with his mother in France, taken care of by diplomat and brother-in-law, Porfirio Rubirosa
10 June 39	his sister, Angelita Maria, is born in Paris, France
?	his father arrives in France aboard the Normandie but has his yacht, the Ramfis, sent to Cannes. Rubirosa gives the Trujillos a sightseeing tour of Paris.
25 November 40	as a diplomat at age 11, he arrives in New York from Cuidad Trujillo, aboard the Coamo
c. 42	his half-sister Yolanda is born out of wedlock to his father and his father’s steady mistress, Lina Lovaton, a former schoolmate of his half-sister Flor de Oro
c. 43	reverted to cadet, he enters the Dominican military academy at age 14
1 December 43	his brother, Leonidas Rhadamés, is born
c. 45	his half-brother, Rafael, Jr., is born out of wedlock to his father and his father’s mistress Lina Lovaton
c. 47	he and his bodyguards are frequent guests at the Six Sweetheart’s stint in Cuidad Trujillo. Later, one of the Sweethearts, actress Barbara Nichols, will remember that he sent her flowers and presents.
?	he and some friends gang rape blonde teenager Rosalía Perdomo. Afterwards they take her to the Maríon hospital.
48	marries beautiful divorcee Octavia Adolfina Ricart. He’s 18; she’s about 19. They lived together almost two years prior to their marriage. His mother dislikes her.
c. 49	his first child, Maria Altagracia, is born
	is given the rank of ambassador
November 49	as Inspector of Embassies, Legations, and Consulates, he accompanies his father aboard the Presidente Trujillo to Jacksonville, Florida
6 December 49	he and his father transfer to the yacht of Florida businessman George Gibbs for a cruise up the St. John River and a look at industrial installations
26 January 50	arrives in New York from Cherbourg, France, aboard the Queen Mary
c. 50	becomes lieutenant colonel at age 21
	his second child and first son, Rafael Ramfis, is born
July 50	columnist Walter Winchell tells: “They are saying a Baltimore girl now visiting the Dominican Republic will marry Rafael Trujillo, Jr., whose pater is in charge there...”
August 50	columnist Jack Lait pens: “Rafael Trujillo, Jr., who couldn’t get parental consent to propose to Joyce Sittler of Baltimore, has the old man’s blessing with a fair Brazilian...”
October 50	Winchell returns to him: “Rafael Trujillo, Jr., son of the dictator of the Dominican Republic, and his Baltimore bride-to-be (photographer Joyce Sittler) will tell it to the judge. He changed his mind...”
November 50	is reported having settled out of court with “Baltimore beauty Joyce Sittler...”
c. 51	becomes colonel and brigadier at age 22
June 51	columnist Ed Sullivan expects him and Joyce Sittler to announce their engagement
?	becomes a playboy during his visits to Florida
c. 52	his third child, Aida Azilde, is born
52 / 53	divorces Octavia
May 52	is reported courting Park Avenue’s Mildred Rochman
August 52	Winchell reports: “Rafael Trujillo, Jr., son of the Latin dictator, and Boston society lass Margaret Westburn make it public at Toni’s Caprice...”
53	the divorce from Octavia is annulled
	is captain of the Cuidad Trujillo polo team playing the Gulfstream polo fields in Delray Beach, Florida. His father is among the spectators.
January 53	is a Manny Wolf’s duo with pretty Leni Simon
March 53	his father visits the United Nations in a much publicized trip to the United States. With him on his diplomatic mission are his second wife, Maria Martinez Trujillo; his daughter Maria, 13, who attends school in Washington; and his 8-year-old son Rhadamés Leonidas.
June 53	columnist Earl Wilson reports him “mooney over showgirl Mae Ree Autry...”
?	in Cuidad Trujillo, Rubirosa introduces him to his new girlfriend, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
30 December 53	serves as best man when Rubirosa marries heiress Barbara Hutton at the 1100 Park Avenue home of the Dominican consul general in New York, Dr. Joaquin Salazar. S. Leland Rosenberg, Rubirosa’s private secretary; Lance Reventlow, Barbara’s son; and Jimmy Donahue are the few guests.
c. 54	his fourth child, Mercedes/Merceditas, is born
May 54	columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reports: “Four armed guards waited outside Maude Chez Elle the other day while Gen. Trujillo, son of the Dominican Republic’s dictator, lunched with S. Leland Rosenberg...”
3 June 54	he and Octavia, three of his kids, and Angelita join his father and his wife in Madrid, Spain, where they are on an official visit to Generalisimo Francisco Franco y Bahamonde
12 June 54	the Trujillos visit Barcelona
?	accompanied by Franco’s wife, Maria del Carmen, the Trujillos visit the El Escorial monastery outside Madrid
16 June 54	his father has a private interview with Pope Pius XII in Rome, Italy, and signs a Concordat with the Vatican
c. 17 June 54	awaits his father in Cadiz, Spain, aboard the Presidente Trujillo
?	the Trujillos visit Sevilla and travel the up the coast to Malaga
10 July 54	the Trujillos return to Madrid
?	his daughter Maria Aida receives baptism at the hands of the Patriarch of the Indies in the Palace of the Pardo, Madrid, in the presence of Franco and his wife
?	for four days, the Trujillos visit Paris, France
End July 54	he, his wife and his father board the United States in Le Havre. His mother, Rhadamés and Angelita remain in Europe a little longer.
4 August 54	arrives with his wife in New York from Le Havre, France, aboard the United States
December 54	the press hails S. Leland Rosenberg his private secretary
55	his father buys the Sea Cloud, a 316-foot, 2,300-ton, four-masted auxiliary yacht from wealthy Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, for a reported $2.5 million. Built in Kiel, Germany, in 1931, the yacht was commissioned by financier E. F. Hutton and his wife, Marjorie Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, and originally christened Hussar. Trujillo orders the ship completely overhauled, redecorated for $5 million and renamed Angelita.
c. 55	his fifth child, Claudia del Carmen / María Angélica, is born
January 55	is seen at Manny Wolf’s with stripper Lili St. Cyr
20 December 55	is noted with his wife, Octavia Ricart de Trujillo, in Cuidad Trujillo at the opening of the International Trade Fair, celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Dominican Republic. Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek and Cardinal Francis Spellman are among the guests. At the Agua Luz, his sister is crowned Queen Angelita I.
c. 57	his sixth child, Rafael Leonidas, is born
August 57	as Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominican Air Force, he enlists at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Arriving by chartered plane, he is accompanied by his wife, Octavia, their six children, an entourage of aides and servants, and 27 private American guards. He rents the top floor of the nine-story Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City and a $450-a-month ranch house near Fort Leavenworth.
?	is seeing psychiatrists and is under medication (Miltown and Doriden) for clinical depression and mild hypomania
Christmas 57	30 private agents are reported guarding him and his entourage around the clock at his ranch, an entire floor of a Kansas City hotel, and a private school in Boonville, Missouri, 105 miles to the east. “Eighteen of the agents guard Trujillo’s wife and five of their six children in the Kansas City hotel, six more watch over the general at his ranch home off the Ft. Leavenworth reservation, and six more keep light surveillance at Kemper Military School where Rhadamés Trujillo, 16, a younger brother of the visiting general, attends.”
December 57	he and Octavia formally separate
End 57	his wife leaves for Cuidad Trujillo with five of their six kids
Early 58	the press quotes him saying: “I like to spend money and I have it to spend.”
20 January 58	his sister, Angelita, marries Colonel Luis José León “Chesty” Estévez
?	actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, the former girlfriend of his ex-brother-in-law, Porfirio Rubirosa, starts introducing him to Hollywood society
c. February 58	hosts Zsa Zsa aboard the Angelita, which is docked during Mardi Gras in New Orleans
?	has a short affair with British actress and sexpot Joan Collins and gifts her with a 25K bauble from Van Cleef & Arpels. In her 1978 memoirs, she only has fond memories of him.
31 March 58	on medical leave from Leavenworth and with an entourage of seven persons and a pet dog, he flies to California and rooms in a rented $200,000 estate at 243 South Mapleton Drive in Holmby Hills. The monthly rent is $2,500. He’s in California for an operation for adenoids and a sinus condition.
Spring 58	Zsa Zsa hosts a candlelight dinner for him, 25-year-old actress Kim Novak, and her sister Eva. He and Kim are “ablaze with romance.”
Easter 58	is seen frequently with Kim in Hollywood
?	presents Zsa Zsa, who’s rehearsing for "The George Gobel Show" at NBC in Burbank, with a $11,500 / $5,600 Mercedes Benz sports car plus a $17,500 chinchilla coat; Kim gets an $8,500 black Mercedes 220S with customized white leather interior, a $3,500 pearl ring and $1,500 earrings
April 58	to help the affair, Zsa Zsa stages a lavish party in their honor. The Jimmy Stewarts, the Robert Taylors, David Selznik and Jennifer Jones, Robert Mitchum, Louella Parsons, Rhonda Fleming, Shirley MacLaine, Maureen O’Hara, Ann Miller, Natalie Wood, and Porfirio Rubirosa attend.
?	is noted by starlet Iris Lia Menshell, a.k.a. Lita Milan, for the first time when he enters the Mocambo with Kim, Zsa Zsa and Rubirosa; she thinks "he is Mexican with his whiskers and his shiny blue hair."
?	the press learns about his gifts when a Hollywood car dealer reports that Ramfis shelled out cars for Kim, Zsa Zsa and himself
April 58	during a closed-door hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, Congressman Wayne Hays from Ohio claims that Ramfis’ lavish living during his year in the States will cost the Dominican Republic a million dollars at a time when the country is earmarked for $1,300,000 in U.S. aid. Ramfis declines any comment on the assertion.
?	Zsa Zsa claims her car was a Christmas gift
Late April 58	is among the guests at a dinner thrown by Zsa Zsa at the swank L’Escoffier room at the Beverly Hills Hotel for her former boyfriend, Porfirio Rubirosa and his new wife, Odile Rodin. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa’s publicity man, Warren Cowan, attend too.
18 May 58	his father tells the press in Cuidad Trujillo that Ramfis already filed for divorce from Octavia in the civil court of Bravos District in Chihuahua, Mexico, in April 1958, before showering Zsa Zsa and Kim with lavish gifts
?	his wife files an answer through attorney Manuel Romo Gandara of Juarez, Mexico. “Five of her children are with her at her home in Cuidad Trujillo. The other is with the generalissimo in his rambling white residence behind a high stone wall in the heart of his capital. The children’s ages range from 1 to 9.” The divorce is expected to be final in July; Octavia will retain custody of their children.
20 May 58	the press is on hand when he says goodbye to Kim aboard his private railroad car in Los Angeles before leaving for Fort Leavenworth. He declares he plans to return to Kim in July after he finishes his studies in Kansas.
23 May 58	Kim goes to Cobina Wright's dinner dance, held at oilman Arthur Cameron’s sprawling Beverly Hills estate, in a taxi and tells the press that she gave that $8,500 sports car back to Ramfis
13 June 58	the U.S. Army announces that he won’t get a diploma from the Fort Leavenworth college because he “did not successfully complete the course.” He will only receive a certificate of attendance. In a reaction the same day, his uncle, president Hector Bienvenido Trujillo, appoints him chairman of the Dominican Joint Chief of Staff.
17 June 58	in Cuidad Trujillo his father says that the Fort Leavenworth decision to deny the diploma proves that the late President Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy is dead. The Angelita is on the way to Los Angeles to bring Ramfis home.
18 June 58	returns to Los Angeles in his railroad car and goes into seclusion at his rented Bel-Air mansion, where he says he plans to spend 15 days before leaving on the Angelita, anchored in Los Angeles harbor. Kim is in New York for location filming for Bell, Book and Candle.
	Zsa Zsa tells the press that she’s still looking for a new wife for him. “What would be nicer than to have him marry a nice American girl? Think what this would do for friendly relations between his country and the United States,” she says.
21 June 58	Zsa Zsa and Kim are guests at an introductory reception given by him on the Angelita, which has Dominican soldiers posted around it. The next night, the yacht moves to Santa Monica harbor to be closer to the girls’ homes. Zsa Zsa and Kim. The Los Angeles Times dubs the Angelita a “floating funhouse.”
End June 58	the press tells that he has expressed interest in French newcomer Brigitte Bardot. From a French movie set, Brigitte says of him: “He looks very pretty.”
July 58	columnist Mike Connolly reports: “Last thing General ‘Ramfis’ Trujillo did before leaving Hollywood was phone Kim Novak – and next-to-the-last thing he did was sign a contract to finance Don Quixote. It will be produced in the Dominican Republic by Joe Kogan, with Vincent Price as the priceless Don and (they hope!) Red Buttons as Sancho Panza.”
3 July 58	he, Porfirio and Gilberto Rubirosa are sued for $10,000 in Santa Monica Superior Court by 22 / 23-year-old commercial artist and starlet Lynn Heyburn, who claims she was dunked without a cause in the swimming pool of his West Los Angeles mansion at 9:30 on April 11 while she was an invited guest. Ramfis himself wasn’t present. Finally she and Ramfis reach a quiet out-of-court settlement.
Mid-July 58	Earl Wilson writes: “Connie Moore is still exclaiming about a party she attended on young General Trujillo’s yacht. ‘He has a crew of 72,’ she guaranteed me, ‘plus a 12-piece orchestra that he carries with him constantly, plus 300,000 blow-ups of Kim Novak.’ Connie told her husband Johnny Maschio, ‘I’m sorry, but I like it.’”
c. July 58	hosts 24-year-old actress Debra Paget aboard the Angelita. He tells her that he wants her for the part of Dulcinea in his upcoming Don Quixote, but drinking during the whole interview muddles his thought and scares her off. Afterwards she says: “he is putting up the money to produce Don Quixote, the picture Mike Todd was planning before his death, and he wanted to interview me about playing the part of the leading lady. Besides, my mother went with me!“
?	the press reports that he proclaimed his love for Debra Paget
15 July 58	the press notes starlet Lita Milan boarding the Angelita at San Pedro, California, and tags her "The Woman in Red." Five hours later Lita is noted running down the gangplank weeping, with two of his aides in pursuit. When they catch up, she sits down and weeps even more copiously. Ramfis watches from the deck.
16 July 58	the press suspects Lita of running off with him while scheduled to begin a movie. “Clad in a skin-tight red dress, she didn't get off before the boat departed.”
	a spokesman for producer Edward Alperson tells that Lita called director Roger Corman via ship-to-shore radio Tuesday night from the Angelita. She requested that Corman skip her scenes in I, Mobster until her return. Actress Susan Cabot is called into action and takes over her role.
17 July 58	Lita leaves the Angelita in San Diego, California, and is flown northward in a chartered plane. Alperson says he will file a damage suit against Ramfis if it can be proved that he took her on a journey against her will. Dockside observers, however, agree she boarded the Angelita without assistance just before it sailed.
?	tagged the "Lady in Green," Lita takes another yacht trip with him
21 July 58	columnist Earl Wilson reports that Ramfis plans to stay awhile longer and “asked the Horace Dodges to defer moving back into the Los Angeles home he rented from them...”
	he and Lita show up at the Ensenada, Mexico, office of Justice of the Peace Miguel Santos Torres to ask for information about performing a wedding ceremony. Torres tells the couple this is impossible unless he has proof of divorce. Ramfis is reported to have recently secured a Mexican divorce from Octavia.
23 July 58	Lita abandons the Angelita in San Diego, California / Ensenada, Mexico, and is driven 220 miles to Los Angeles by one of his aides in a rented car. Her departure brings a sudden halt to rumors that Ramfis was planning to marry her. "The general has no intention of getting married," she says and reports back for work.
24 July 58	Lita is quoted saying that he is really a misunderstood "charming, delightful boy"
27 July 58	charters a four-engine, 60-passenger Western Air Lines plane for "slightly under $10,000" to fly Lita and a party of five to Acapulco, Mexico, where he's vacationing aboard the Angelita. An airline spokesman says the plane carried her, Dr. Louis J. Betz, Dr. and Mrs. Vincent de Paulo, and three other men. The general paid with a check.
August 58	stripper Lee Sharon is reported getting her “this-car-is-not-a-gift-from-Trujillo” sticker autographed by Ramfis himself
2 August 58	Lita returns to Hollywood from another secret flying trip to visit him. She says she doesn't know when she’ll see him again. The general is en route home, but, she says, "That boat has a slow engine on it." She claims: “The girl I read about in the newspapers isn’t me. To me, that girl is a freak. I’m not flighty and I don’t get involved in scandals. I’m just adventurous - but I don’t mean a female adventuress. And I still don’t feel that I was involved in anything sordid.”
5 August 58	columnist Dorothy Kilgallen tells: "Lita Milan's friends report they haven't seen her or heard from her in months, but they don't know whether the actress is really 'missing' or just planning a publicity stunt similar to her headline - making 'romance' with Rafael Trujillo, Jr., when he visited California some months ago..."
?	partying aboard the Angelita, he returns via Miami to Cuidad Trujillo. There he crashes the official reception to honor his return and to declare him Joint Chief of Staff by showing up drunk and vomiting on his uniform.
c. 11 August 58	congress in Cuidad Trujillo passes a bill to name a new express highway for him
August 58	Lita moves into a new house in the Hollywood Hills. The press wonders if he made the down payment.
17 September 58	Lita’s agent confirms that she left sometime last month for the Dominican Republic after completing her part in I, Mobster
21 September 58	the press reports Lita’s forwarding address as "Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, care of General Trujillo"
November 58	Zsa Zsa explains breaking up with him because “she can’t afford to be silly anymore due to her career”
?	Lita settles in a large home on the beach of Boca Chica, “between murderers and day laborers. Here she devotes herself to ceaseless changes of furniture and décor, and Ramfis follows her blindly in everything.”
June 59	is in charge of the torture and execution of a dozen of invaders, expatriates and freedom fighters who are brought to San Isidro Air Force base for interrogation. His behavior makes his father send him to a sanatorium and electroshock therapy in Belgium.
August 59	Mike Grande, Lita’s business manager, begins to worry as he hasn't heard from her in several months. He recently leased her Los Angeles home for a year. Eventually she cables Grande that she was ill the past several months but will depart from the Dominican Republic in a week for New York to visit her parents.
60	divorces Octavia
	marries Lita Milan. He's about 31; she's about 27.
February 60	columnist Walter Winchell tells: "Lita Milan gave up her coast home to dwell 'permanently' in the Dominican Republic. Trujillo's son Rafael is that daffy about her..."
March 60	is in New York to meet diplomat and Kennedy advisor Robert D. Murphy to discuss financial and diplomatic relations
Spring 60	he and his entourage are off to Paris for the polo season
61	resides with Lita on an estate at Maurice Barrès 82 in the Neuilly-sur-Seine district, and in a mansion near the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, next door to Aga Khan’s residence
30 May 61	at about 10 p.m., his father dies at age 69 after a short gun battle at George Washington Boulevard outside Cuidad Trujillo. Seven ambushers with machine guns strike as Trujillo heads in his chauffeur-driven 1959 Chevrolet toward his San Cristobal estate La Fundacion for a rendezvous with his 20-year-old mistress, Mona Sanchez. He orders his chauffeur to stop and do battle. He falls with his .38 caliber revolver in hand; his chauffeur survives severely wounded.
	celebrates the victory of his polo team, the Cibao La Pampa, into the early hours of the morning at his mansion near the Bois de Bologne. On his team are Rubirosa, brother Radhamés, and some military aides.
31 May 61	early in the morning, he learns about his father’s assassination via a phone call by his mother. He, Rhadamés, Porfirio Rubirosa, Gilberto Rubirosa, and S. Leland Rosenberg return to Ciudad Trujillo in a chartered Air France plane from Paris. He assumes power immediately and starts commanding the search for the suspects.
	the battered body of his father is found in the trunk of an attacker’s car in the driveway to the home of traitor General Juan Tomás Diaz
1 June 61	is named Joint Chief of Staff of the Dominican Republic’s Air Corps, Army and Navy, altogether containing 25,000 men, and Secretary of State, without credentials
2 June 61	he and Rhadamés attend their father’s burial in the crypt of the San Cristobal Church. There are reports that the dictator’s face was so badly mutilated by bullets and his left arm almost severed that his widow issued an order not to open the coffin.
	his armed forces report assassin First Lieutenant Amado Garcia Guerrero machine-gunned to death at the home of his aunt and the capture of Roberto “Fifi” Pastoriza, Pedro Livio Cedeno, and Huáscar Antonio Tejeda Pimentel. Still at large are Antonio de la Maza Vazquez, Salvador Estrella, and Antonio Imbert.
3 June 61	in a press conference in Cuidad Trujillo, he says he does not want to assume as much power as his father had. He says he wants “only the best relations with the United States.” There are rumors that at least 1,000 people have been arrested since the assassination and that many of them are being tortured.
Mid-June 61	Kilgallen reports: “His many French cronies don’t believe Rafael Trujillo really wants to rule over the Dominican Republic... He loves life too much, especially life in Paris, where he recently purchased a luxurious mansion at 82 Boulevard Maurice Barres, with every intention of spending most of his time there.”
Summer 61	even though Lita, his official wife and currently pregnant, is in Cuidad Trujillo, he stays with his current lover, a Paris Lido showgirl, and her mother at his Boca Chica home
27 August 61	accompanied by Ambassador-at-Large S. Leland Rosenberg, five of his six children, his mother, and his brother Rhadamés arrive at New York International Airport on their way to Europe. The children are said being returned to school abroad. This party is among the first to flee the Dominican Republic.
23 October 61	his uncles, General Jose Arizmendi Trujillo and General Hector B. Trujillo, flee the Dominican Republic aboard the family’s two luxury yachts, Angelita and Presidente Trujillo but return about two weeks later in an unsuccessful attempt to seize power.
14 November 61	resigns as Joint Chief of Staff of the Dominican Republic’s Air Corps, Army and Navy
18 November 61	he and two of his drinking aides shoot the six remaining assassins with submachine guns at a distance of 15 feet from the terrace of the Trujillo family ranch, Hacienda Maria, 19 miles west of Cuidad Trujillo. The remains of Modesto Diaz, Roberto "Fifi" Pastoriza, Huáscar Tejeda, Pedro Livio Ceno, Salvador Estrella, and Luis Manuel "Tunti" Cáceres are never found.
	later that the day, he flees the country aboard the Angelita / Presidente Trujillo, shortly before U.S. warships arrive, his destination being Cannes, France. From Guadeloupe he takes a commercial airliner to Paris. His uncles and other family members escape by plane to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
29 November 61	after 13 days at sea, the Angelita returns to Calderas naval base, Dominican Republic. Aboard are found Ramfis’ close associate Andres Alba, the casket with Trujillo’s body, papers, jewels, and $4 million in cash. There are rumors that his father’s body has been kept in cold storage aboard the yacht ever since his assassination.
30 November 61	President Balaguer dispatches the dictator’s body to Paris in a chartered Pan Am DC-7
Late November 61	Winchell reports: “Rafael Trujillo’s private plane is parked near Hollywood, waiting for Kim Novak to change her mind...”
3 December 61	his father’s body is taken to the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris for burial. Ramfis is reported planning to erect an elaborate monument to the slain dictator.
9 January 62	he and two of his top-aides, Luís José León Estévez and Gilberto Sanchez Rubirosa, are sought for extradition by the Dominican government “in connection with the disappearance and presumed death of six men held for the assassination.” All three are supposed to live now in Paris.
February 62	the press tells about Lita: "In knowledgeable quarters it is said that she and Rafael have had it"
Early March 62	the Dominican government seizes $32 million of Trujillo property
Early 62	moves with Lita to a place near Madrid, Spain
	adds flying to his passions, a sport forbidden him by his father
c. 62	his first son by Lita, Ramsés, is born. In 2000 Lita will claim to author Mario Vargas Llosa that her son opposes the common opinion about the Trujillo family and is interested in Dominican culture.
September 62	Dorothy Kilgallen writes: "Bella Darvi, who has been so depressed recently because of her gambling losses and dearth of impressive suitors, now has a beau who seems to be cheering her up. He's Ramfis Trujillo, and there's even talk that he might invest in a picture if Bella got a part in it..."
November 62	Dorothy Kilgallen reports citing Paris sources that “you haven’t seen playboys in action until you’ve caught the two Trujillo boys, sons of the late Dominican Republic dictator. They’re over there wearing long sideburns and breaking furniture in swank nightclubs and hotels, and the proprietors don’t seem to mind because they pay for all the damages they do. Daddy left them lots of money in European bank accounts long before he was done in.”
63	his second son with Lita, Ricardo, is born
May 63	Winchell tells that Ramfis has put a $250,000 reward for the demise of the last living assassin, Antonio Imbert
June 63	Winchell reports him living quietly with Lita and their two sons in Madrid
July 63	the Dominican government puts the Angelita, now renamed Patria, up for sale, minimum offer $2 million. Eventually a Miami-based company buys the craft. In 1978, a group of German businessmen takes over, renames her Sea Cloud, and has her explore the Mediterranean in summer and the Caribbean in winter.
8 February 64	is best man at his brother’s marriage to 20-year-old French starlet Daniele Gaubert in the Normandy village of Authouillet
30 June 64	his father’s illegitimate children, now in Florida, sue him, his brother, his sister and her husband, and his mother, in Geneva, Switzerland, for about $50 million, which they took with them in December 1961. A Geneva court orders the extradition of Rhadamés from France.
14 August 64	his father is finally interred at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris
November 64	is reported residing with Lita and their infant son in a Madrid hotel suite. He shuns the Madrid nightclubs and devotes himself to raising racing horses and polo ponies at the family stables with his brother-in-law, ex-General Luís José León Estévez.
65	is sentenced in absentia by the Dominican government to 30 years at hard labor
August 66	his father’s illegitimate children, the “Miami-Clan,” try again to have him subpoenaed to Geneva. Now the missing money is considered to be approximately $180 million.
67	drives his car into a tree near Orléans, France. A female companion is killed.
?	is a proficient pilot and flies a private plane several times a week
69	he and his family live on a ranch outside of Madrid
June 69	at his Resort San Rafael outside of Madrid, sixty persons die when the restaurant roof collapses
17 December 69	at 8:00 a.m., 8 miles from Madrid, in thick fog, his Ferrari crashes head on into a Jaguar driven by the 44-year-old Dona Teresa Beltran de Lis, the Duchess of Albuquerque. She dies instantly; her two sons survive. He was on his way to the Madrid airport. His face, which smashed against the steering wheel, is unrecognizable. There are rumors the CIA or President Balaguer might have been behind the crash.
18 December 69	undergoes surgery at Madrid’s Covesa Clinic for a fractured pelvis and head injuries
24 December 69	contracts pneumonia, the aftereffect of the car crash. He needs oxygen and blood transfusions.
26 December 69	in the afternoon, he has a tracheotomy, but his condition worsens. A doctor flown in from the States fails to save his life.
28 December 69	at 10 a.m., he dies at age 40 at Madrid’s Covesa Clinic of pneumonia. His mother, his wife and some of his eight children are in his room when he dies. Some sources say his former wife, Octavia, was present, too. He’s survived by his wife Lita; their two sons, Ramsés, 7, and Ricardo, 5; two sons and four daughters by his first wife Octavia; his mother; a younger brother, Rhadamés; and a sister, Angelita.
29 December 69	in the afternoon, he is buried at Nuestra Senora de la Almudena cemetery in Madrid. Lita is photographed with his first son, 19-year-old Rafael Ramfis.
November 70	his father’s body is finally transferred from Paris to a site near Madrid
?	his widow is believed to have inherited $400 million. As Lita Trujillo, she will become a renowned Madrid socialite.
15 February 78	his half-sister Flor de Oro dies at age 62 in New York’s Beth Israel Hospital from cancer. His siblings Angelita and Rhadamés are reported living in Florida.
95 ?	his brother, Rhadamés, vanishes in the Colombian jungle, allegedly executed by the Cartel. There are rumors that he worked for the Cartel and the DEA.

Sources: Trujillo - The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator by Robert D. Crassweller, Trujillo - The Death of the Goat by Bernard Diederich, The Last Playboy - The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy, La Fiesta Del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa, The Glamour Girls by James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke, Such Devoted Sisters by Peter H. Brown, Madmen of History by Donald Hook, "Life on a Cloud" at www.TravelGuideS.com by Joyce Harvey, Uncensored, Screen Stories, Picturegoer, Photoplay, The New York Times, Times, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Lima News, San Antonio Express, Nevada State Journal, Kingsport News, Pharos Tribune, The Morning Herald, Albuquerque Journal, The Delta-Democrat Times, Mansfield News-Journal, Western Kansas Press, The Abilene Reporter-News, The Lawton Constitution, Leader-Times, The Ada Evening News, The Odessa American, Ironwood Daily Globe, The Coshocton Tribune, Sunday Journal and Star, The Lowell Sun, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Tri-City Herald, The Holland Evening Sentinel, Indiana Evening Gazette, The Times Recorder, Long Beach Independent, The Sun, The Kerrville Times, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Oneonta Daily Star, The Salisbury Times, The Vidette Messenger, The Daily Gleaner, Charleston Daily Mail, Chronicle-Telegram, The Sheboygan Press, Express and News, S?ddeutsche Zeitung, Die Weltwoche, Great Bend Daily Tribune, The Gettysburg Times, Two Rivers Reporter, Appleton Post Crescent, The Progress, The Stars and Stripes, Edwardsville Intelligencer, The Port Arthur News, pro.Corbis.com, www.Ancestry.com
Recommended Books: Trujillo - The Death of the Dictator by Bernard Diederich Trujillo - The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator by Robert D. Crassweller The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa by Shawn Levy The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa and Edith Grossman Yo, Ramfis Trujillo by Jos? Le?n Est?vez
Links: Wikipedia: Ramfis Trujillo Who's Dated Who: Rafael Ramfis Trujillo