For L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, 92, and France’s wealthiest woman, it was a seven-year saga of bitter family politics, convoluted legal wrangles and politics. The case even dragged close political aides of ex French President Nicolas Sarkozy into its net.
Last week a Bordeaux court found eight friends and close contacts of Bettencourt – who now suffers from Alzheimer’s disease – guilty of attempting to fleece her of billions of euros.