
Rulers of Fortune
2025· TV Series


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When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Created By
Status
Ended
Language
Portuguese
Type
Scripted
Last Air Date
November 23, 1998
Networks
Production

**A series that resurrects one of the biggest skeletons in the closet of the Portuguese Second Republic.** Unlike the monarchist times, where the sexual antics of kings and queens fluctuated between the picturesque and the grotesque, the successive republican regimes in Portugal were very weak of bedroom peccadilloes. We don't have things like that French president who died in a sexual act with a mistress in the Presidential Palace, nor do we have anything like the scandal that shaken Bill Clinton's term in the White House. We are a very moralistic, Catholic country, which gives importance…
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