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.
I see it now. I was initially looking in photos lower-down (the black-and-white one and the one in front of the painting), but the eye condition is definitely more visible in the top photo.
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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!!
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PraxisSeizure ago
The eye.... look at her eye
10579874? ago
What specifically am I looking for in her eye? It is hard to tell the exact details of her eye with those photos without an idea of where to look.
PraxisSeizure ago
madlain mccaan
10580081? ago
I see it now. I was initially looking in photos lower-down (the black-and-white one and the one in front of the painting), but the eye condition is definitely more visible in the top photo.