The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N8SL7FF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 146 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2014, the French government named Tom Sancton a Chevalier (knight) in the Order of Arts and Letters. . Tom Sancton was a longtime Paris bureau chief for Time magazine, where he wrote more than fifty cover stories. Sancton coauthored the New York Times (and international) bestseller Death of a Princess, a probing investigation of the murky circumstances
The aging cosmetics heiress gave hundreds of millions of dollars to her protégé, who was then charged with criminal manipulation by the woman's embittered daughter and convicted at a trial that also entangled French President Nicholas Sarkozy, a labor minister and others. It's an eye-popping, page-turning read.” —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels “A riveting, dishy account of one of France’s wealthiest families, whose Olympian grasp reaches scandalously deep into the French political world and the government it
What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world.The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. But her gilded life has taken a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. But Banier has a far different story to tellThe Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim.It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast o