1. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Martinez, better known as Ramfis Trujillo, was the son of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, after whose 1961 assassination he briefly held power.
14 Facts About Ramfis Trujillo
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Ramfis Trujillo was nicknamed Ramfis after the high priest in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida.
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Ramfis Trujillo became notorious for buying luxury cars, mink coats, and jewelry for beautiful girls during his stay.
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Ramfis Trujillo's flashy gift-giving made the national news and members of the United States Congress were openly questioned by the press about what real use was being made of foreign aid given to the Dominican Republic.
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Ramfis Trujillo apparently suffered from psychological problems, possibly the result of the pressure that his father constantly placed on him, as he intended to remake his son into an image of himself.
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Ramfis Trujillo received electroshock treatments in Belgium as early as 1958; there were stays in mental hospitals after that.
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Many of these actions have most historians convinced that Ramfis Trujillo never wanted to be a ruler like his father and that he just wanted to live the carefree and bon vivant life of a playboy, shunning any sort of responsibility.
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Ramfis Trujillo was an American of Hungarian immigrant parents, who had a short but relatively successful film career in Hollywood, most notably in The Left Handed Gun, opposite Paul Newman.
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On 30 May 1961, Rafael Ramfis Trujillo was assassinated in a plot to end his 31-year rule.
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Ramfis Trujillo quickly returned to the country and, with the help of Johnny Abbes Garcia, the ruthless intelligence chief, brutally repressed any elements believed to be connected with his father's death, murdering many of the suspects himself.
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Ramfis Trujillo eased his father's harsh censorship of the press, and granted some civil liberties.
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Ramfis Trujillo died on 27 December 1969 in a Spanish hospital due to complications from pneumonia after being severely injured in a car crash ten days earlier in the outskirts of Madrid.
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Ramfis Trujillo was initially buried in Madrid's Almudena cemetery, but his remains were subsequently moved to Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo to accompany his father's remains.
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Ramfis Trujillo was driving a Ferrari 330GT sports car, a blue 2-door purchased in 1966.