L’Oreal heiress questioned in financial investigation

The heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune is being questioned by French investigators in a probe into her finances which has embroiled the government, her lawyer said today.

Georges Kiejman said Liliane Bettencourt is answering financial investigators’ questions in her villa in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. She is being questioned as a witness in a probe of alleged tax evasion.