Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Financial Status of Valentino Estate - 1930

 The Court of Appeals ruling exonerating S. George Ullman, reported the "actual value" of the Rudolph Valentino estate @1930 to be $300,000.00. (see extract from case file) By today's monetary exchange rate x 15, this would be a value of $4,500,000.00, When Valentino died he left a heavily involved estate as the court extract in this post refers to it as, "a practically bankrupt estate". The meekest implication Ullman mismanaged the estate is absurd.

Granted for decades this could not be proven because the court records revealing all of this were conveniently stolen from their rightful housing in The Los Angeles County Hall of Records. The proof of Ullman's true, stellar performance as Valentino's executor has consequently for years been lied about to fit an agenda. 

As the point is made in the extract, his amazing performance was "emphatically" not pointed out. 



Contract Appointing Ullman as Valentino's Business Manager

On July 6, 1923, Rudolph Valentino met with S. George Ullman in the office of his new lawyer Max D. Steuer to sign a contract appointing Ull...