Rank #20
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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