- Longtime lover of Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Shares her gravesite with philosopher and lover Jean-Paul Sartre, who died six years before she did; interred at Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris, France.
- Regarded as the mother of post-1968 feminism. Her philosophical work reflected the existentialism of Sartre.
- Her long affair with novelist Nelson Algren was dramatized in John Susman play "Nelson & Simone" that premiered in Fall, 2000, at the Live Bait Theatre with Rebecca Covey as de Beauvoir and Gary Houston as Algren.
- Though interred with Sartre, she was buried wearing the ring Nelson Algren gave her.
- She and Sartre went to movies often. They particularly enjoyed movies with "that big American," as she wrote in one of her many memoirs. She was referring to John Wayne.
- Portrayed four times by Jordan Mohr--in the plays "Two Simones: de Beauvoir and Signoret in Hollywood" and "De Beauvoir 1964," and in two films, Hollywood Mouth and Hollywood Mouth 2.
- Faked documents claiming to have had an abortion to make a statement.
- Mentioned in the song "Rattlesnakes" by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.
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