Natacha Rambova

On her first meetings with Valentino: "It wasn`t love at first sight. I think it was good comradeship more than anything else."

In 1925 she staged a "media event" when she traveled from Los Angeles to Paris to pose for photographer James Abbe at famous clothing designer Paul Poiret's salon. She modeled a pearl-embroidered white velvet gown and a chinchilla cloak, and declared Poiret her favorite couturier.

In 1951, she turned down interviews and threatened to sue Columbia Pictures if they portrayed her in a biographical film on Rudolph Valentino.

Natacha's reasons for not wanting kids was that she loved her career so much, she didn't think she would be a fit enough mother and give her children the attention they needed. She did love kids very much though and would often visit her young cousins.