Posted on 03/05/2019 4:48:55 AM PST by simpson96
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s L'Oréal? In Francoise Bettencourt Meyers case, it’s both. The L'Oréal heiress, who is also the chairwoman of her family’s holding company, is the world’s richest woman, with a fortune of $49.3 billion.
Bettencourt Meyers, who is the 15th-richest person in the world, leads the women on the 2019 Forbes World’s Billionaires list, which will be published in full on March 5.
The granddaughter of L'Oréal’s founder Eugène Schueller (an inventor of hair dyes), and a member of the company’s board since 1997, Bettencourt Meyers debuted on the billionaires list last year following the death of her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, in September 2017. Liliane had been on the list every year since Forbes published its first World’s Billionaires List in 1987.
Bettencourt Meyers’ fortune increased by $7.1 billion, or 17%, since last year thanks to stellar results at the makeup giant, of which she and her immediate family own a 33% stake. An estimated 90% of her wealth is tied to shares of the company, which recorded its best sales growth in more than a decade last year with total revenue coming in at $30.6 billion. Revenue in Asia Pacific jumped 20%, driven by China; the region has now overtaken North America in terms of sales.
Bettencourt Meyers, who lives in Paris, is the president of her family’s Bettencourt Schueller Foundation. The philanthropic foundation encourages French progress in science and the arts, giving money and support to projects in life sciences, social progress and traditional crafts. The foundation has donated to projects including the research of neurons, support for families of autistic children and French choirs. She is also a writer and has authored a book on the Greek gods and another with commentary on the Bible.
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Maybe she can lend me $36.50 until payday.
She is saving up for a pair of glasses that doesn't make her appear to be butt ugly! You'll have to wait.
One would think that with all that money, she would buy a good set of teeth and glasses. Instead, she looks like the progeny of Jerry Lewis and Mr. Ed.
I’ve been contributing to her for years and having more fun...Sign Me...75 and still blonde!!
ROFLMAO!!!!
I was gonna touch on the looks but I figured i’d leave it to sharper wits than mine :)
Yeah there’s something wrong with the whole cheeks meet lips/facial structure thing going on.
I wonder if she looks human without the glasses??
Still, I’d find a way to fall in love with her for that money :)
AH!!!!!!!!!!
I looked at pictures of her on google and some make this one look outright flattering!! :(
And sans glasses didn’t help!
I'm broke enough to fight you for her!
She’s going for the ‘Mort’ look. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Family-Guy/Mort-Goldman/
Those glasses frames hide her natural beauty.
Thank goodness.
LOL
Do we know who AOC’s mother is?
Amazing how ugly they are, isn’t it?
Being uber rich it's probably hard to find anyone close to you that would have the gall to pull you aside and say, 'Hon, can we talk?'
Good hair color.
Clark Kent (who stopped getting a haircut two years ago) shows up for work at the Daily Planet, in Metropolis.
The glasses are fashion and women having to grovel with their looks is not for the born into it rich.
Also, she’s 65. Probably younger than that in this pic, but still looking fine for her age.
LOL, you go girl.
Heh, those women were targets for Gigolo Kerry. That little smarmy chicken (yes, chicken) lying POS would have been fired from Starbucks had he not been able to seduce rich women and buy his way into a Massachusetts senatorship. (Hmmm, MA voters do seem to have that weakness. Even to the point of electing alcoholics who walk away from drowning women.)
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