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Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family

Net worth $96.3B

L'Oréal · France

Born
Jul 10, 1953
Age
72
Source
L'Oréal
Residence
Paris
Citizenship
France
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal.
  • Bettencourt Meyers and her immediate family own more than a third of the publicly traded beauty giant.
  • She served on L'Oreal's board from 1997 to 2025. When she retired, her son Jean-Victor Meyers replaced her as vice chairman. Her son Nicolas Meyers is also a director.
  • She became France's reigning L'Oreal heiress in 2017 when her mother Liliane Bettencourt, then the world's richest woman, died at age 94.
  • Bettencourt Meyers also serves as the president of her family's philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts.
  • Together, L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Meyers family agreed to donate $226 million to help repair Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral following the 2019 fire.
  • Bettencourt Meyers' inheritance was the subject of a sensational trial in France, in which a man was convicted of manipulating her ailing mother for her fortune.
  • Bettencourt Meyers is also a writer and has authored a book on the Greek gods and another with commentary on the Bible.

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