Sunday, May 11, 2025

The Value of the Valentino Estate Itemized

In 1930, the court conducted an audit of the Rudolph Valentino estate as Valentino's close friend and trusted business manager, S. George Ullman proved his stellar performance as estate executor. Here this accounting of the estate assets and overall value is itemized and assessed at $325,779.36 which by today's exchange rate at x 15 would be $4,886,690.40, nearly five million dollars. I ask how George Ulman could ever have been accused of mismanagement with these numbers on the books four years after Valentino's death?
I contend it was lawfare designed to get rid of Ullman and had nothing to do at all with mismanagement. This page is taken from the Baskerville Audit found within the Appeals Court records which I discovered. 


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...