Just as Olga had provided entrée to the world of modeling, she also introduced Machado to actor Martin LaSalle, the man who would become her first husband. Together initially for five years, they married in 1957, after a yearlong break—for her fling with a Hollywood superstar[Holden]...
In due course she went back to LaSalle, and stayed married to him until 1965...
An actor and the son of a diplomat, LaSalle, too, traveled with a high-octane crowd, which included Porfirio Rubirosa. Once the notorious playboy welcomed the couple into his circle, every night was a party. “He would go to a place, and he’d get the whole band around the table,” Machado recalls of the merriment. “Everybody sang, and everybody drank until three o’clock in the morning, and then we’d go to [a restaurant] opposite the George V [hotel] that was open 24 hours, for breakfast. I don’t even know how I lived through all those years.” Heady times, but eventually Machado and LaSalle settled in New York.