Luis Basualdo News Today

Alan Davidson / Shutterstock Luis Basualdo, known as the ‘modern-day Casanova’, the good-looking Argentinian polo-playing playboy who had an eye for beautiful, wealthy women, has died aged 75. As Richard Kay revealed in the Daily Mail, ‘for all his faults he was certainly a life enhancer.’ Indeed, he came to Britain from Argentina in 1968 as The Times describes, ‘with two polo ponies, a dashing smile and bundles of charm’, soon becoming immersed in the polo scene that saw him caus...

Of all his accomplishments on behalf of his adopted country, assisting a ‘wet behind the ears’ Prince Charles in the art of the romantic chase was among bed-hopping playboy Luis Basualdo’s proudest achievements. The glamorous polo-playing Argentine —who cut an amorous swathe through the ritzy resorts of Europe and America collecting heiresses and beautiful women as if they were match-books — found himself uniquely positioned to help the then unmarried prince in his quest for intimate ...