Suicide attempt in heiress fraud case
The trial of 10 people accused of swindling France’s richest woman of artworks and cash worth hundreds of millions of euro began with the shock revelation that one of the accused had attempted suicide hours before the soap opera-like case began.
The ‘Bettencourt Affair’, as the case surrounding 92-year-old L’Oreal cosmetics heiress Liliane Bettencourt has been dubbed in France, is a politico-financial scandal that has wound its way through French courts and newspapers for years, and is only now coming to trial.
