Nov. 28, 2023
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers - The Richest Woman In The World - Founder of L'Oreal - EP 193
$93.5B $812M (0.86%) Real-Time Net Worth as of 11/28/23#14 in the world today
- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal, is the richest woman in the world.
- Bettencourt Meyers and her family own around 33% of L'Oreal stock.
- She has served on L'Oreal's board since 1997 and is chairwoman of the family holding company.
- 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 also serves as the president of her family's philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts.
- Together, L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Meyers family agreed to donate $226 million to repair Notre Dame Cathedral following the April 2019 fire.
