Under mild assumptions, we show that reduced free products and reduced graph products of $\mathrm{ C}^\ast$-algebras are selfless in the sense of L. Robert, without assuming the rapid decay property. In particular, our main theorems yield numerous new examples of simple, monotracial $\mathrm{ C}^\ast$-algebras with strict comparison, stable rank one, and admitting a unique unital embedding of the Jiang-Su algebra $\mathcal{ Z}$ up to approximate unitary equivalence.
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