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Inside Greta Garbo’s Secret Life in New York City: She Was Always ‘Out and About’


Greta Garbo was 'private' but also liked to be 'out and about' while living in New York City, her great-nephew Derek Reisfield exclusively tells Closer.

Greta Garbo arrived in Hollywood as an unknown, unsophisticated actress from Sweden and left 16 years later a rich woman. Ruth Harriet Louise/John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images At home, Garbo decorated her apartment, which encompassed the whole fifth floor of the exclusive Campanile building, in girlish colors, like the salmon-hued silk fabric on her bedroom walls. In addition to visits to her native Sweden, Garbo, who became an American citizen in 1951, was often spotted among the jet set sipping champagne in Italy, Switzerland and the south of France.

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