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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0303</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2008-12-10</periodOfReport>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000887921</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>REVLON INC /DE/</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>REV</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001354448</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Kennedy David L</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O REVLON, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>237 PARK AVENUE</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>NEW YORK</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>10017</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>1</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>President &amp; CEO</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class A Common Stock</value>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2008-12-10</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>P</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>10000</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>6.53</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>280033</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F3"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Revlon, Inc., the issuer, completed a 1-for-10 reverse stock split on 9/15/08 in which each 10 shares of the issuer's common
 stock were combined and reduced to 1 share.  Accordingly, the shares reported in this Form 4 are adjusted for the 1-for-10
 reverse stock split.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The purchase price of $6.53 reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price for the 10,000 shares acquired within a range of
 $6.48 to $6.56 per share.  The reporting person undertakes to provide to the Issuer, any security holder of the Issuer or
 the Staff of the SEC, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares acquired at each separate price within
 the price range noted above.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Of the reporting person's 280,033 shares reflected as beneficially owned, (a) 11,666 are unvested restricted shares that the
 reporting person was granted on 11/16/06, which vest on 11/16/09, (b) 83,500 are unvested restricted shares that the
 reporting person was granted on 12/10/07, 27,833 of which vest on 1/2/09, 27,833 of which vest on 1/2/10, and 27,834 of
 which vest on 1/2/11 and (c) 84,250 are unvested restricted shares that the reporting person was granted on 12/8/08,
 one-third of which vest on each of 1/10/10, 1/10/11 and 1/10/12.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Robert K. Kretzman for David L. Kennedy pursuant to a Power of Attorney</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2008-12-11</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
