Ariel Capote

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Ariel R. Capote (born October 28, 1976), born Ariel Ruiz Perez Rivero, is a Spanish cuban born writer & upcoming independent filmmaker noted for his auteur style of which love appears in some form, capacity, theme or mood in his body of work.

Capote grew up the oldest of four children to Hortensia Ruiz Capote, a Cuban national volleyball player of Spanish Nigerian descent and Juan Enrique Pacheco, a Spanish born poet and Cuban revolutionary. He was once involved with French producer Prisca J. Du Boise de Maquillé, but the courtship was suddenly called off. He is older brother to Indie photographer Cristina J. De Armas and distant cousin to the acclaimed American writer Truman Capote, through the latter's mother's second marriage to Joseph Capote.

Arriving from Cuba's Mariel Harbor during the Mariel boat lift of 1980, the Pacheco family quickly established themselves in the small town of Staunton, Virginia after the family was sponsored by the local Catholic church. Capote spent his early teen years living between Staunton and Glendale, California after his father's sudden death by a driven motorist. He later suffered a crippling emotional breakdown following his mother's unexpected death in 1996 of a cerebral aneurysm. During a book interview in 2001, he contributed pride to his recovery and love to the breakdown.

His latest written work, a graphic novel titled From Auschwitz with Love: a Love Story, is set for an early 2007 release.