This file photo taken on October 18, 2010 shows France’s richest woman, L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt being greeted prior to an award ceremony of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, on October 18, 2010 at the Quai Branly museum in Paris.
L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s richest woman, has died at the age of 94, her family said on September 21, 2017. “Liliane Bettencourt died last night at home,” her daughter said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / Fred DUFOUR
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 died last night at home,” her daughter Francoise Bettencourt Meyers said in a statement. “My mother left peacefully.”
Bettencourt, the cosmetics giant’s principal shareholder, was the 14th richest person in therefore world, according to Forbes magazine, which estimated her net worth in March at $39.5 billion (33 billion euros).
She was rarely seen in public since leaving the L’Oreal board in 2012, but her name remained in the headlines as members of her entourage were charged with exploiting her failing mental health.
Bettencourt had been declared unfit to run her own affairs in 2011 after a medical report showing she had suffered from “mixed dementia” and “moderately severe” Alzheimer’s disease since 2006.
The complex legal case involved a bitter feud with her only daughter and unscrupulous friends, and even dragged in former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Patrice de Maistre, who managed Bettencourt’s vast fortune, was accused of getting her to hand over envelopes of cash to members of Sarkozy’s right-wing UMP party during his 2007 presidential campaign.
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