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　　In 1924, Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimer brothers, Pierre and Paul, directors of the eminent perfume house Bourgeois since 1917, creating a corporate entity, Parfums Chanel. The Wertheimers agreed to provide full financing for production, marketing and distribution of Chanel No. 5. For ten percent of the stock, Chanel licensed her name to Parfums Chanel and removed herself from involvement in all business operations. Displeased with the arrangement, Chanel worked for more than twenty years to gain full control of Parfums Chanel. She proclaimed that Pierre Wertheimer was the bandit who screwed me.

　　One of Chanels longest and enduring associations was with Misia Sert, a notorious member of the Parisian, bohemian elite and wife of Spanish painter Jos-Maria Sert. It is said that theirs was an immediate bond of like souls, and Misia was attracted to Chanel by her genius, lethal wit, sarcasm and maniacal destructiveness, which intrigued and appalled everyone. Both women, convent bred, maintained a friendship of shared interests, confidences and drug use. By 1935, Chanel had become a habitual drug user, injecting herself with morphine on a daily basis until the end of her life. According to Chandler Burrs The Emperor of Scent, Luca Turin related an apocryphal story in circulation that Chanel was called Coco because she threw the most fabulous cocaine parties in Paris

　　Perfume Chanel No.5

　　In 1923, Vera Bate Lombardi, born Sarah Gertrude Arkwright, reputedly the illegitimate daughter of the Marquess of Cambridge, afforded Chanel entry into the highest levels of British aristocracy. It was an elite group of associations revolving around such personages as Winston Churchill, aristocrats such as the Duke of Westminster and royals such as Edward, Prince of Wales. It was in Monte Carlo in 1923, at age forty-two that Chanel was introduced by Lombardi to the vastly wealthy Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, known to his intimates as Bendor. The Duke of Westminster lavished Chanel with extravagant jewels, costly art, and a home in Mayfair. In 1929, he gifted her with a parcel of land he had purchased near Monte Carlo where Chanel built an opulent villa, La Pausa His affair with Chanel lasted ten years. The Duke, an outspoken anti-Semite, intensified Chanels inherent antipathy toward Jews and shared with him an expressed homophobia.