L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt dies at 94
Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune and the world’s richest woman, has died at home in Paris, aged 94.
Bettencourt, whose net worth was estimated at $39.5 billion, was the daughter of Eugène Schueller, who made a fortune as the inventor of modern hair dye and founder of L’Oreal.
Bettencourt was said to have adored her father, whose company she inherited on his death in 1957, her mother having died when she was five.
