Jorge Eduardo Guinle (5 February 1916 – 5 March 2004), also known as Jorginho Guinle, was a Brazilian billionaire tycoon from the Guinle family of Rio, Brazil.
He was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro on 5 February 1916."Jorge Guinle, 88, a Playboy Who Outlived His Millions, Dies". New York Times, 6 March 2004.
He was known as one of the richest men on earth,Bud Freeman, Crazeology, page 67, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1995, a jazz enthusiastMicol Seigel, Uneven encounters: making race and nation in Brazil and the United States, page 107, Duke University Press, 2009, and the "last tycoon playboy".Mo Teitelbaum, The Stylemakers: Minimalism and Classic-Modernism 1915-45, page 115, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011,
He was romantically associated with numerous stars including Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Hedy Lamarr, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Jayne Mansfield,Raymond Strait, Here They Are Jayne Mansfield, page 156, SP Books, 1992, Susan Hayward,Dizzy Gillespie and Al Fraser, To Be, Or Not... to Bop, page 430, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, Carole Landis,Eric Lawrence Gans,Carole Landis: a most beautiful girl, University Press of Mississippi, 2008, and Linda Christian.Diane Telgen and Jim Kamp, Notable Hispanic American women (Issue 68), VNR AG, 1993, He came from the Plassin-Guinle family, a wealthy French-Brazilian family with ties to the Port of Santos and Copacabana Palace hotel.
Guinle died on 5 March 2004 in Rio de Janeiro.
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