Was best friends with actress Estelle Taylor, who was the last person to see her alive.

She had one brother and two sisters. When she was a child, her father, a Mexican Army officer, died during a revolution, and she had to work for a living. Her mother was an opera singer (though some say, she was a prostitute), with whom she first saw what stage life was like.

The most popular Italian crossword weekly magazine, "La Settimana Enigmistica", which typically features the picture of a star on its cover page puzzle, had Lupe Velez on its no. 1 issue back in the `30s.

She was pregnant at the time of her death, and in her suicide note named Austrian actor Harald Maresch as the father.