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

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
Brand Dutton
Manufacturer Dutton
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-08-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101984475

Country	USA
Brand	Dutton
Manufacturer	Dutton
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-08-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101984475

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

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