Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a French billionaire heiress and an author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish-Christian relations. She is the only daughter and heiress of Liliane Bettencourt, and her family owns the company L’Oréal.
- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the richest woman in the world and the granddaughter of L’Oreal’s founder.
- Bettencourt Meyers and her family own 33% of L’Oreal stock, which recorded its best sales growth in more than a decade in 2018.
- She has served on L’Oreal’s board since 1997 and is chairwoman of the family holding company.
- Together, L’Oreal and Bettencourt Meyers’ family foundation are donating $226 million to repair Notre Dame cathedral following the April 2019 fire.
- 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 serves as the president of her family’s philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts.
