Anita Berber

As I have now definitely reached the period in my life where the policemen are younger than me. I view hooded youth and their borderline anti social behaviour with a marginally pitying demeanour; and let out a loud melancholic sigh at 'Celebs'

I recall a phrase commonly used in my youth 'you didn't invent it you know'. Nothing illustrates this more than Anita Berber, who as a performing artist in 1920s Berlin would according to Wikipedia.......

Her performances broke boundaries with their androgyny and total nudity, but it was her public appearances that really challenged taboos. Berber's overt cocaine use and bisexuality were matters of public chatter. She was allegedly the sexual slave of a woman and the woman's 15-year-old daughter. She could often be seen in Berlin's hotel lobbies, nightclubs and casinos; she would walk around naked except for a sable fur, carrying a pet monkey and a silver brooch full of cocaine, while flaunting her lesbian lovers—removing the barrier between performance and normal life. Besides being a cocaine addict, she was an alcoholic.

Take that Heat Magazine, nobody's got a pet monkey in this week's issue I'm sure.