Daughter of collaborationist press tycoon Jean Luchaire, who was
condemned to death and shot by a firing squad for his involvement with
the German occupying forces during the war.
She served a prison sentence in Nice prison, condemned to "National
Degradation" (Deprived of her civil rights as a French citizen) for 10
years and received a ban that forbade her to work for several years for
her collaboration with the Germans during the war.
Had a daughter called Brigitte Luchaire from a liaison with a German officer. Her brief marriage was with a false French aristocrat who worked for the French Gestapo.
Died in abject poverty from the effects of tuberculosis.
Spoke fluent English.
The daughter of a journalist and politician and granddaughter of a playwright, on stage from the age of 16.
She had a daughter, Brigitte, born in 1944, with a German officer.