“Chanel, according to her latest biographer, Rhonda K. Garelick, "lied constantly to everyone, about everything—even trivial matters—never bothering even to keep her many fictions consistent." Not only did she live at the Ritz alongside the Nazi occupiers, have an affair with one of them and participate in pillaging at least one Jewish home for furniture and artwork, she even tried to "Aryanize" the substantial share of her company that was owned by the Jewish Wertheimer family She [was] a strange mixture of a woman, nasty, envious. . . . She had every kind of success, everything one could imagine, and yet she was very ill at ease, keeping a sort of resentment and bitterness toward people, which ”
