biography
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Romanoff, Michael
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known as Prince Mike, originally Harry F Gerguson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?1892–1971)
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| biography:
| Restaurateur and impostor, possibly born in Vilnius, E Lithuania. Among his many fabrications, little is definitely known of his early life. In 1919 he proclaimed himself a Russian prince and lived a glamorous life on credit in Paris and London before opening a celebrity restaurant in Hollywood (1939), the first of a chain that he managed until his 1962 retirement. |
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