Lita Milan Trujillo & Robert Kelly Smithey ..........

So, Lita was "The Lady in Red" you always hear about.. I first met Lita in Madrid, Spain and knew her from 1973 until 1993. She was the darling of the Madrid press after having inherited four hundred million dollars from the playboy/general "Ramfis" Trujillo son of the dictator of the Dominican Republic.. She told me all about meeting him at the Mocambo in Hollywood .. she was out with Zsa Zsa Gabor and the rest is history.. I loved her story about the press seeing her boarding the 350-foot yacht of Trujillo in San Pedro in California wearing a red dress and the tag stuck.. I learned later from Harold Robbins about her affairs with Steve McQueen "Never Love A Stranger" and Paul Newman "The Left Handed Gun" .. She was a bombshell. I was buying fabric at the House of Cadena in Madrid. I had a dinner date with Bastiano Bergese , he made his money selling fake penicillin during the second world war.. Lita was at the table next to ours, in a gorgeous garden, we sent over a bottle of champagne. The restaurant was called "31" Club, like not the "21" Club in New York. It was a grand place international cuisine many French specialities she joined us with her friends - and we had quite a party.. At one point her girl friend said, " I dare you to hit me with a pie " we were very drunk by then. The dessert trolly was there and we were having coffee and more after dinner drinks .. we were about ten people by then. Lita gives me a little giggle and picks one up. Throws it, and her friend ducks and it hits a rich banker at the table next to ours.. he was pissed off big time. A food fight started and we made a real mess of this place.. Thank God, we had the cousin of the King of Spain - at our table, and they let us go with a HUGE tip ... This was still Franco days .. but Lita knew Franco and with Carlos the cousin of the King -  he left the big tip and settled it with the owner of the restaurant...  She came to my lunch party in Marbella for Harold Robbins  she jetted down from Madrid for that and brought the photographers with her.. She came with the most famous bullfighter in Spain at the time. He took off his shirt and showed us his scars!!!