The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the

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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris

Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar Lâ€™OrÃ©al fortune, Liliane Bettencourt is the worldâ€™s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life has taken a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, sheâ€™s now embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? Itâ€™s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic cityâ€”and involving the most glamorous industryâ€”in the world.

The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering Lâ€™OrÃ©alâ€™s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourtsâ€™ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim.

It all began when Liliane met FranÃ§ois-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protÃ©gÃ© of Salvador DalÃ. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasnâ€™t clear, least of all to Lilianeâ€™s daughter and only child, FranÃ§oise, who became suspicious of Banierâ€™s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell...

The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.

Country	USA
Author	Tom Sancton
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101984482
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Dutton
Manufacturer	Dutton
NumberOfPages	410
PublicationDate	2017-08-08
Publisher	Dutton
ReleaseDate	2017-08-08
Studio	Dutton

The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris

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