Michael Romanoff
Biography
Michael Romanoff was a Hollywood restaurateur and actor born Hershel Geguzin in Lithuania on February 20, 1890. He gained notoriety for falsely claiming to be a member of Russia's royal House of Romanov, despite being a Brooklyn-born pants presser who emigrated to New York City at age 10. Romanoff owned the infamous Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills, popular with Hollywood stars from the 1940s and 1950s. He was deported to France for fraud in 1932.