There has been a plethora of books about Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, most of them proving the obvious: that she was a horrible human being, a vicious anti-Semite, certainly a Nazi collaborator, perhaps even an active spy for them, a ruthless cutthroat in her business affairs. Mixed in with all these weightier matters are loads of good old-fashioned gossip. Was she really a lesbian, despite all those trophy lovers including Britain’s Duke of Westminster and the Romanov Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Rasputin’s killer? There seems to be no end to the fascination with all the sordid details of her life.
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