Florence La Caze Gould (1 July 1895 – 28 February 1983) was an American writer and salon-holder who became involved in a money laundering plot before creating a legacy as a patron of the arts at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[1] She held a salon under the German Occupation of Paris, entertaining many French intellectuals, such as Marcel Jouhandeau, Jean Paulhan, Paul Léautaud, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and German officers, such as the writer Ernst Jünger,[2] and narrowly escaped high treason charges in 1945.
Her second marriage was as the third wife of the fabulously rich Frank Jay Gould in 1923.
[5] The couple owned a gambling casino and several hotels and restaurants.
These allowed them to move money from Nazis, which caused her to be charged but never found guilty of treason by the US government.