At the time of his death he was severely in debt, and his heirs
could not afford a burial plot for him.
June Mathis,
friend and screenwriter of his hit films
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and
Blood and Sand (1922), agreed to temporarily loan him
a space in her family crypt at Hollywood Park Cemetery so he could be
interred upon his body's arrival in Los Angeles, following a
coast-to-coast funeral train ride from New York. Mathis died the following year and Valentino's body was moved into her husband's space. He is still interred there, as all memorial plans fell through during the Depression.