News about Liliane Bettencourt, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Logline: Writer/director Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Woman in the World is inspired by the captivating real-life scandal surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the heir to the L’Oreal fortune ...

Liliane Bettencourt was deeply involved in philanthropy and the arts, establishing the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation with her husband and daughter to support medical, cultural, and humanitarian ...

L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is now the second highest-placed woman on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index after Alice Walton.

Cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt lavished money and gifts on her friend, photographer François-Marie Banier. Then, her daughter sparked a... 'The Bettencourt Affair': Extravagant Friendship ...

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a French businesswoman and philanthropist, and the only child of Liliane (a socialite, heiress and key shareholder in L'Oréal) and André Bettencourt (a politician).

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers became the first woman to amass a $100 billion fortune, marking another milestone for the heiress and for France's expanding fashion and cosmetics industries. Her wealth ...

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the L’Oreal heiress and richest woman in the world, has become the first woman to hold a $100 billion fortune, Bloomberg reported.

L’Oreal heir is first woman with $100 billion fortune As an only child, Bettencourt Meyers came into her wealth following the 2017 death of her mother.

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the heir to the L'Oréal beauty empire has become the first woman in the world to be worth over $100 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.