The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman And The Scandal That Rocked Paris

"When Liliane Bettencourt, the aging heiress to the L’Oreal fortune, fell under the spell of a handsome, talented artist and began to shower him with gifts amounting to an incredible 1 billion euros, her daughter filed a criminal suit against the artist claiming that this “Rasputin” had exploited her mother’s oncoming dementia. The ensuing 10-year scandal outed all kinds of ugly secrets, including the company’s Nazi-collaborationist past. “There was no dye,” writes Tom Sancton in this riveting page-turner, “that could hide the family’s dark roots.”"