There’s been plenty of debate about who will be the next James Bond in recent years, complete with racist backlash over the possibility of the first Black 007. But here’s a twist, what if the inspiration for the man with a license to kill wasn’t white at all? That’s what litigator and history aficionado Daniel J. Voelker tried to prove in a recent 8-page article titled, “Will the Real James Bond, Please Stand Up?,” which argues that Dominican playboy and socialite Porfirio Rubirosa was the main inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Rubirosa, also known as Rubi, was a Dominican diplomat within dictator Rafael Trujillo’s regime. In his article, Voelker makes a case for why Rubirosa was the primary inspiration for Fleming’s Jame Bond through a series of shared social connections between the author and Rubirosa.

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2016 20:45 UTC