Bettencourt

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers became the first woman to amass a $100 billion fortune, marking another milestone for the heiress and for France's expanding fashion and cosmetics industries.

Mukesh Ambani is closing in on LOreals Francoise Bettencourt Meyers at $92.9 billion, as both move closer to a rarefied group of men with fortunes of $100 billion.

L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman whose old age was clouded by dementia, has died at the age of 94, her family said Thursday.

Liliane Bettencourt's daughter, who triggered a probe into the alleged exploitation of the elderly L'Oreal heiress, told a French court today that her mother's closest confidant was a "con man" bent on destroying her family.

One of three judges who charged former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with exploiting France's richest woman, has received a bullet in the mail. Jean-Michel Gentil received a death threat along with a blank cartridge by post, said a statement on the French magistrates' union website.

A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign finance case, formally placing him under investigation over allegations that he illegally took donations from France's richest woman on way to his 2007 election victory.

A judge investigating Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign funding mistook a Colombian hostage for a billionaire backer of France's right-wing party when he queried a meeting in the ex-president's diary, a lawyer for Sarkozy said.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy went before a judge on Thursday to respond to suspicions that he illegally accepted donations from France's richest woman to fund his 2007 election campaign.

France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, has lodged a suit against her only daughter alleging psychological abuse, one of the multi-billionaire's lawyers said.Lawyer Pascal Wilhelm announced the civil case against Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt after the estranged daughter tried for a third time to have her 87-year-old mother deem...

The heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune was questioned on Monday by French investigators in a probe into her finances that has embroiled President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.

An aging heiress. An angry daughter. A society photographer. A renegade butler and an embittered accountant. Secret tapes. A famous company with a nasty past and long political connections. An unpopular president and a cabinet minister with a taste for money, and tales of illegal cash donations in envelopes. This romantic stew is known as the "Bett...

A scandal over secretly taped conversations involving France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, threatened on Sunday to engulf a high-profile minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet.

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers became the first woman to amass a $100 billion fortune, marking another milestone for the heiress and for France's expanding fashion and cosmetics industries.

Mukesh Ambani is closing in on LOreals Francoise Bettencourt Meyers at $92.9 billion, as both move closer to a rarefied group of men with fortunes of $100 billion.

L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman whose old age was clouded by dementia, has died at the age of 94, her family said Thursday.

Liliane Bettencourt's daughter, who triggered a probe into the alleged exploitation of the elderly L'Oreal heiress, told a French court today that her mother's closest confidant was a "con man" bent on destroying her family.

One of three judges who charged former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with exploiting France's richest woman, has received a bullet in the mail. Jean-Michel Gentil received a death threat along with a blank cartridge by post, said a statement on the French magistrates' union website.

A judge on Thursday filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign finance case, formally placing him under investigation over allegations that he illegally took donations from France's richest woman on way to his 2007 election victory.

A judge investigating Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign funding mistook a Colombian hostage for a billionaire backer of France's right-wing party when he queried a meeting in the ex-president's diary, a lawyer for Sarkozy said.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy went before a judge on Thursday to respond to suspicions that he illegally accepted donations from France's richest woman to fund his 2007 election campaign.

France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, has lodged a suit against her only daughter alleging psychological abuse, one of the multi-billionaire's lawyers said.Lawyer Pascal Wilhelm announced the civil case against Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt after the estranged daughter tried for a third time to have her 87-year-old mother deem...

The heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune was questioned on Monday by French investigators in a probe into her finances that has embroiled President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.

An aging heiress. An angry daughter. A society photographer. A renegade butler and an embittered accountant. Secret tapes. A famous company with a nasty past and long political connections. An unpopular president and a cabinet minister with a taste for money, and tales of illegal cash donations in envelopes. This romantic stew is known as the "Bett...

A scandal over secretly taped conversations involving France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, threatened on Sunday to engulf a high-profile minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet.