the youngest of 12 children (hence, the nickname "bebe" meaning "baby" in spanish) of cuban immigrants to tampa, florida, matias and carmen rebozo owned several businesses in florida, including a gas station and a group of laundromats, before he started his own bank, the key biscayne bank & trust, in key biscayne, florida, in 1964. rebozo regularly attended key biscayne community church, sometimes accompanied during later years by nixon.