Jaime Bravo (September 8, 1932 – February 2, 1970) was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for death defying style and numerous relationships with women and Hollywood starlets.

Biography

Utilizing scandal
Bravo also had the uncanny knack of utilizing scandal to make sure that he received the best headlines. During an August 1968 corrida, playing to the Tijuana, non-aficionado tourists, Bravo "requested the animal be spared. This, in turn, was denied, and the torero [Bravo] who refused to kill the bull was escorted to the local jail and fined". Bravo received headlines for his defiance.

Only one month earlier, at a July 1968 corrida, Bravo had used a similar press-grabbing tactic, when he was not performing his best and another matador's superior performance was going to gain the next day's headlines. Before that corrida ended, Bravo made sure to curse at the bullring's judge, just enough to infuriate the judge so that Bravo was immediately arrested and jailed. Cameras captured countless photos of Bravo being cuffed, escorted from the bullring, taken to the jail, and locked in a cell. Bravo accomplished his goal. The next day, the newspapers' headlines boldly declared that Jaime Bravo had been jailed. Much further down the page, and in much smaller type, only a few sentences stated that the other matador had performed brilliantly.

Never a dull moment for the crowds, gossip was further promulgated by such actions as his behavior during a 1957 Tijuana bullfight, during which he tossed flowers to Ava Gardner, from the ring. She was at the corrida with actor Gilbert Roland.

One of the biggest scandals concerning Bravo and his misadventures related to Arabella Arbenz, daughter of Guatemala's leftwing president Jacobo Arbenz, who was ousted long ago. This woman was a top fashion model, who eventually committed suicide in front of Bravo, shooting herself on October 5, 1965.


Marriages
Bravo was married three times. First, he married actress Francesca De Scaffa in 1957. The marriage was a fiasco and was eventually annulled the same year by the appropriate magistrate, as a favor to Bravo's friend Pablo Picasso, who gave the signed annulment to Bravo as a belated wedding gift.

In 1957, Bravo next married the actress Ann Robinson, by whom he had his first two sons, Jaime and Estefan. In 1967, two years after appearing in a 1965 Las Vegas promotional bullfight, he married a Las Vegas showgirl named Monica Lind (from Les Folies Bergère), by whom he had his third and final son, named Aleco Jaime Bravo.