Did Rudolph Valentino die of a gunshot wound/various other crazy causes? Did he die in a boxing match?
There are many interesting celebrity deaths from the 1920s and 1930s…Olive Thomas accidentally poisoned herself, Lya De Putti contracted an infection after swallowing a chicken bone, and Larry Semon seemed to not really die at all (or so the story went)… For some reason, despite his straight forward death, many rumors have sprung up around the cause of Valentino’s death. A very old rumor had it that he died after eating from a new fangled aluminum pot (which supposedly poisoned him). Another persistent rumor had him shot by a jealous rival, despite no such wound found on his body. Valentino’s death was quite straightforward, and very tragic. For a full accounting of the events directly before, during, and after his death we recommend “The Valentino Mystique” by Allan Ellenberger. However we’ll set the record straight here as well. Valentino was possibly ill as early as his troubles with Natacha. In 1926 (after suffering a terrible divorce) he took on filming “Son of the Sheik” desp
