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Coco Chanel was a bisexual drug-using homewrecker, says a new biography set for fall release.WWD reports: "With this fall’s release of Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, biographer Lisa Chaney claims to have concrete evidence that the designer used drugs, embraced bisexuality and had an affair with Salvador Dalí while he was married. In an e-mail sent Thursday by her Viking publicist, Chaney claims to have accessed documents in the Swiss Federal Archives among other publications that prove Chanel’s German lover Hans Günther von Dincklage spied for the Nazis throughout World War II." [WWD]
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