Coco Chanel did not have children and never married. She did, however, take responsibility for her nephew, André Palasse. He was the son of her elder sister, Julia-Berthe Palasse, who reportedly died by suicide in 1910 when André Palasse was a child. A few biographers have put forth the theory that André Palasse may have been Chanel’s illegitimate son, possibly by her early lover, Étienne Balsan.
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