L’Oreal heiress was involved in a shocking scandal

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Was it because she was worth it — or because she could? The B’naire, the Butler,and the Boyfriend is an exposé of power, politics, and family feuds. The series unravels a scandal that captivated France involving Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s wealthiest woman (at the time of her death in 2017) and her daughter Françoise.

ICYMI, Bettencourt is the family behind L’Oreal, and Liliane owned the biggest portion of shares in the massive cosmetics conglomerate which means the lionshare of the company’s annual profits. Cooped up in her mansion, she spent her wealth lavishly — especially on her staff who received exorbitant salaries that worried her daughter, Françoise…

… particularly when fat envelopes of cash reportedly ended up in Nicholas Sarcozy, the former French President’s, hands. Not only that, her gifting of priceless art pieces and large sums of money tocelebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier — who even asked for Bettencourt to adopt him — alarmed Françoise, instigating her to step in by using her mother’s butler to record her conversations with her financial advisor who tells her where to spend her money.

Footage and actual recordings of the conversations are enticing — particularly as we hear the financial advisor explaining why the elderly b’naire should sign off these unusual amounts of cash.

You can watch this docu-series on Netflix.