Wealth
A L'Oreal Heiress Is Now the World's Richest Woman
- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers controls a $43.3 billion fortune
- Mother’s death fuels speculation about the cosmetics giant
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The death this week of L’Oreal SA’s founding family matriarch is putting the spotlight on a reclusive 64-year-old heiress who now finds herself as the richest woman in the world.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has shunned the glittering social life that her late mother, Liliane Bettencourt, once embraced. Bettencourt Meyers is known for playing piano for several hours a day and has written two books -- a five-volume study of the Bible and a genealogy of the Greek gods.