Lupe Velez Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Lupe Velez was born on July 18, 1908, in San Luis de Potosi, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez. She was sent to Texas at the age of 13 to live in a convent. She later admitted that she wasn't much of a student because she was so rambunctious. She had planned to become a champion roller-skater but that would change. Life was hard for her ...
Net Worth
$700,000
Date Of Birth
July 18, 1908
Place Of Birth
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Height
5' (1.52 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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[on divorcing Johnny Weissmuller] Marriage - eet stinks.
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The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
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Fact
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Has a star on the Hollywood walk of Fame.
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More than four-thousand people filed past her casket during her funeral.
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Velez' estate, valued at $125,000 and consisting mostly of her Rodeo House home, two cars, jewelry, and personal effects were left to her secretary Beulah Kinder with the remainder in trust for her mother, Mrs. Josephine Velez.
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Was best friends with Mrs. Jack Oakie and retired actress Estelle Taylor and, who was the last person to see her alive.
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She had one brother and two sisters. When she was a child, her father, a Mexican Army officer, died during a revolution, and she had to work for a living. Her mother was an opera singer (though some say, she was a prostitute), with whom she first saw what stage life was like.
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The most popular Italian crossword weekly magazine, "La Settimana Enigmistica", which typically features the picture of a star on its cover page puzzle, had Lupe Velez on its no. 1 issue back in the '30s.
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She was pregnant at the time of her death, and in her suicide note named Austrian actor Harald Maresch as the father.
