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It wasn\u2019t very zen.<\/p>\n

While on vacation at the exclusive Henri Chenot spa, the New York publicist Lauren London alleged that she witnessed something bone-chilling: a visibly disturbed John Galliano heckling her friend for speaking Hebrew.<\/p>\n

Read more Exclusive | How behind the scenes battle to keep Galliano away from Met Gala raged before his involvement was announced<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMy friend was on the phone speaking English with her daughter,\u201d said London in an August 1 post on Instagram. \u201cThen she switched languages and started speaking Hebrew. The minute Galliano heard Hebrew, he started screaming \u2018Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.\u201d Over and over. On repeat until my friend hung up the phone. It was July.\u201d<\/p>\n

When London\u2019s friend \u2014 who has since been identified as Sabine Cimber Goldberg \u2014 asked if Galliano took issue with her language, which is spoken almost exclusively by Jewish communities in hundreds of countries worldwide, London reported that \u201che promptly and unapologetically responded that he did.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the post, London also described the \u201chatred\u201d still present in the disgraced designer, who was fired from Christian Dior in 2011 after shouting antisemitic and anti-Asian slurs at his fans. \u201cHe told her to please [throw out his clothes]\u2026 He is a racist.\u201d <\/p>\n

New York\u2019s most influential politicians and culture-makers seem to agree.<\/p>\n

After an announcement on July 31 that Galliano, now 65, would be the subject of his own Costume Institute exhibition and its accompanying Met Gala, outcry came from politicians like New York City Council speaker Julie Menin, fashion plates like Jill Kargman and museum donors like Alice Tisch, who condemned the decision to highlight Galliano as \u201ca failure of governance\u201d on the part of the museum and Costume Institute leader Anna Wintour. <\/p>\n

Read more Exclusive | Anna Wintour\u2019s \u2018mortified\u2019 employees \u2018whispering behind her back\u2019 over John Galliano Met Gala scandal<\/a><\/p>\n

Galliano denied that the antisemitic incident happened when questioned by the New York Times this weekend.<\/p>\n

But London, who has worked with fashion brands like Valentino and Jimmy Choo as a founder of the London Mischer Communications agency, seems satisfied with the outcome.<\/p>\n

Today on Instagram, she posted a headline declaring \u201cJohn Galliano Bows Out of Met Museum Show After Criticism Mounts\u201d with her own poetic thoughts superimposed over the screenshot:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBowed out \/ Forced out \/ Potato \/ Potahto \/ Tomato \/ Tomatho\u2026 Just happy he is OUT!\u201d <\/p>\n

Read more Anna Wintour calls antisemite John Galliano \u2018courageous,\u2019 offers him \u2018full support\u2019 after he\u2019s forced to pull out of Met Gala<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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