Francoise Bettencourt Meyers: Recluse from scandalous family becomes first 100billion dollar woman

By Vikki White The first woman to amass a fortune of $100bn is a reclusive intellectual who brought scandalous family secrets to the surface when she launched a court battle to protect her mother. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the heiress of L'Oreal and the world's richest woman, owning with her family a 35 per cent stake in the company. With shares rising 35 per cent in a year after beauty sales bounced back strongly in the years since the pandemic, the 70-year-old L'Oreal vice-chair is now worth £790m. But how much do we really know about her? L'Oreal was founded in 1909 in the Parisian su…

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