Liliane Bettencourt, heir to the French L’Oreal hairspray empire and the world’s wealthiest woman, who was at the centre of a long-running French courtroom saga over alleged hangers-on who took advantage of her frailty to elicit money and gifts, has died aged 94. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liliane Bettencourt with her husband André Bettencourt in 1992. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liliane Bettencourt with François-Marie Banier in 2004, who was convicted of exploiting her in 2015. In 2015, the photographer Banier was convicted of exploiting Bettencourt and sentenced to three years in jail, fined €350,000 and ordered to pay €158m in damages. “Liliane Bettencourt died last night at home,” her daughter Françoise Bettencourt Meyers said in a statement.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2017 16:40 UTC