Who is Françoise Bettencourt? The richest woman in the world whose mother once said: “She could have waited for my death instead of hastening it” | Abroad

As of this week, she is the first woman ever to be worth more than 100 billion dollars, but not everything works out in the life of the world’s richest woman Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers (70). The L’Oréal heiress signed up for a discreet existence, but that turned disastrous due to the ‘Bettencourt Affair’: a battle in full spotlight with her flamboyant mother Liliane over the billion-dollar empire. Starring a wealthy widow, a money-hungry gigolo, a hot-tempered daughter and a shrewd butler.