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Was the world's wealthiest female - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated $36 billion L'Oréal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, surprising story behind the cause célèbre that has captivated both France and the earth. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest female and the 11th wealthiest person on the planet as of 2016. But at 94, she's embroiled in an outstanding controversy that has dominated the news and ensnared a past chief executive of France in the controversy. Why? Thanks to an musician and photographer known as François-Marie Banier, who was given vast sums of us dollars by Liliane. Liliane's little princess, Françoise, considers Banier a con man and registered a lawsuit against him, but Banier has a very good different story in order to. It's all become Europe's biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy commercial record, buried World Warfare II secrets, illicit politics payoffs, plus much more. Written by Tom Sancton, a Vanity Fair contributor and past Time correspondent currently moving into France, The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom dilemma; part upstairs-downstairs tale; part business narrative of any glamorous global company with earlier Nazi relationships; and part character-driven account of a sophisticated, attractive family and the intruder who almost tore it apart.
