In later life, she had been at the heart of a high-profile legal battle over whether she was in her right mind when she handed over almost €1 billion in artworks and life insurance to François-Marie Banier, a celebrity photographer.
In 2007, Mrs Bettencourt Meyers filed a criminal suit against Banier for abus de faiblesse (abuse of weakness), claiming that he had ruthlessly exploited her then 84-year-old mother's oncoming dementia. Mrs Meyers said she felt compelled to act when an eavesdropping chambermaid told her she had heard Banier asking to be adopted by Bettencourt.
The so-called Bettencourt Affair electrified France for a decade and seriously damaged the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Commoner ago
On the list of Hudson Bread clients was L'Oréal. Drudge just posted that the heiress, who was richest woman in world died.
EDIT She has colobama too! Just like Madeleine McCann https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/coloboma Thanks to all comments below!!
https://www.gianangelopistoia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Liliane-Bettencourt-GianAngelo-Pistoia-930x340.jpg
carmencita ago
Her father was a Nazi sympathizer and held meetings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Schueller And This One https://www.forbes.com/2005/03/18/cz_sh_0318oreal_bill05. @Commoner
Commoner ago
it is getting to the point where you know what you will find when you start researching.