“... her personal life, values, and morals were perfectly atrocious.”
Before slandering someone, most decent people would provide evidence for their vague accusations. Of course not everyone is decent.
Hank
How about having a doubly aduterous affair with a young married man some thirty years her junior while she, too, was married at the same.
Ayn Rand at least practiced what she preached. She was a selfish pig herself the way she conducted herself in that affair.
Consider her extra-marital affair with Nathaniel Brandon, which was openly conducted on allegedly Objectivist grounds (pity her poor cuckholded husband). Consider her angry denunciation of Nathaniel Brandon when he eventually fell in love and married with somebody else.
Consider her well-documented insistence on unstinting acceptance of her philosophy among her disciples (who called themselves "the Collective"), and her tendency to angrily excommunicate those who had the temerity to disagree.
Consider her support for abortion, in defiance of her proclamation that we should not sacrifice others to ourselves.
There's plenty of odor there, Hank, for those who have a sense of smell.