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Bezig met laden... The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Parisdoor Tom Sancton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book started out as a magazine article, and probably should have stayed that way. Wow, what a mess. The story of the Bettencourt Affair is a tangled web. A wealthy woman is taken advantage of by her staff, by her companion, and by her own daughter. Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetic fortune, was fantastically wealthy. As she descended into the depths of Alzheimer's disease, that wealth and the management of it would come to the forefront of French political and judicial life. The book presents the facts surrounding the case in a very readable way. Who's the bigger villain, the daughter or the photographer companion? It's tough to say. Both are obviously greedy. I had no idea about this story until I read the book. Its description, as well as the views of wealth in French society, were fascinating to me. A good read. Liliane is one of the world's richest women. As she ages, she begins giving lavish gifts to Banier, a friend. Her daughter Liliane is furious, believing that Banier is taking advantage of her mother. Although I was interested in this story, the book itself was very boring. It was just a recitation of fact after fact. It was very dry. Overall, a bust. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Was the world's wealthiest woman--Liliane Bettencourt--heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oreal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause celebre that has captivated both France and the world. Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she's embroiled in an incredible controversy that has dominated the headlines and ensnared a former president of France in the controversy. Why? [It is] thanks to an artist and photographer named Francois-Marie Banier, who was given hundreds of millions of dollars by Liliane. Liliane's daughter, Francoise, considers Banier a con man and filed a lawsuit against him, but Banier has a far different story to tell. It's all become Europe's biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy corporate history, buried World War II secrets, illicit political payoffs, and much more. Written by Tom Sancton, a Vanity Fair contributor and former Time correspondent currently living in France, The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; part business narrative of a glamorous global company with past Nazi connections; and part character-driven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart"--Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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