Meet The World’s Richest Woman
With a net worth of $87 billion, L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has officially taken the title
- Words by: Tom Ward
With a net worth of $87 billion, L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has officially taken the title
With a net worth of $87 billion, L’Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has officially taken the title
Often when we talk about billionaires, we return to the same names: Musk. Murdoch. Zuckerberg. Etc. All of which can get a bit, well, predictable. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers’ story is different. For starters, the 70 year-old granddaughter of L’Oreal founder Eugène Schueller has just become the richest woman in the world – and the 13th richest person overall – according to this year’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The story of how she got there could make a movie. Nazis, contentious court cases and books on everything from Catholicism to Greek mythology all play a part. Ready? Then this is how Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, became the richest woman in the world.
Often when we talk about billionaires, we return to the same names: Musk. Murdoch. Zuckerberg. Etc. All of which can get a bit, well, predictable. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers’ story is different. For starters, the 70 year-old granddaughter of L’Oreal founder Eugène Schueller has just become the richest woman in the world – and the 13th richest person overall – according to this year’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The story of how she got there could make a movie. Nazis, contentious court cases and books on everything from Catholicism to Greek mythology all play a part. Ready? Then this is how Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, became the richest woman in the world.
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