Valentino Fugitive

Valentino Fugitive is Evelyn Zumaya Floris' deeply personal and meticulously documented account of a two-decade campaign of censorship, gaslighting, and targeted harassment waged by a cult-like faction embedded in the world of Rudolph Valentino studies. 

Part memoir, part legal archive and part investigative chronicle, the book traces the author’s persistent search for truth in the face of organized attempts to silence her research into Valentino, his manager George Ullman, and the hidden power structures that have long dominated his legacy. 

Drawing from court records, correspondence, forensic timelines, and thousands of preserved documents, Floris exposes not only the campaign against her and her late husband Renato Floris, but the broader system of manipulation within the celebrity/collector subculture. 

At its heart, Valentino Fugitive is also a love story; an elegy for a creative partnership forged through scholarship, resilience, and devotion. Both a witness statement and a warning, the book reveals how narratives can be seized, controlled, and weaponized, and how reclaiming them becomes an act of survival. 

Unflinching, urgent, and fiercely original, Valentino Fugitive stands as the definitive account of the truth they tried to bury.

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