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Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt (French pronunciation: [liljan ɑ̃ʁjɛt ʃaʁlɔt bɛtɑ̃kuʁ]; née Schueller; 21 October 1922 – 21 September 2017) was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman.
Seven other defendants, including Liliane Bettencourt's financial advisor, lawyer, and notary, were also convicted and given lesser sentences. Banier appealed. The second trial, which concluded in May 2016, upheld the conviction, but suspended the prison sentence and canceled the damages.
The Bettencourt family is a French noble family of Norman origin. The head of the family in the 14th century, Jean de Béthencourt , organized an expedition to conquer the Canary Islands , resulting in his being made King of the Canary Islands by Pope Innocent VII .
Bettencourt Meyers, 70, is the heiress of the L'Oréal empire; her grandfather, Eugène Schueller, founded the L’Oréal Group back in 1909, and she now serves as vice chair of the company ...
Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress of the cosmetics company L’Oreal, has died at the age of 94.
Bettencourt later removed Banier from her will. [23] In 2015 Banier was convicted of 'abuse of weakness' of Liliane Bettencourt, prosecutor Gérard Aldigé stating he had "imposed his control over her like a spider spinning its web. And once he had her in his net, he never let her go. She became his thing. He dealt with her like a vampire."
Bettencourt Meyers and her family own about 35% of the beauty group, which was passed on from her mother, Liliane, after she died in 2017. The heiress is known to be private, so little is known ...
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz bɛtɑ̃kuʁ mɛjɛʁs]; born 10 July 1953) is a French businesswoman, philanthropist, writer, billionaire heiress, and the richest woman in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$71.1 billion as of November 2024, according to Forbes. [1]