Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the title as the world’s oldest person, may have been a fraud, Russian researchers allege. Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. According to an official document, Calment’s daughter Yvonne died of pleurisy in 1934. However, Zak believed the mother, Jeanne Calment died and Yvonne “borrowed the identity” of her mother in order to avoid “paying the inheritance tax.”Calment is believed to have been 99 when she died in 1997, researchers said. If Calment’s record is canceled, Sarah Knauss, an American, will be named the world’s oldest person.

Source: Fox News January 01, 2019 14:48 UTC