Showing posts with label François-Marie Banier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label François-Marie Banier. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Liliane Bettencourt, L’Oréal heiress and France’s richest woman. Photo: Google Images

L'Oréal Heiress Liliane Bettencourt Writes Photographer Out of Her Will

THE TELEGRAPH: The celebrity photographer accused of abusing the trust of L'Oreal [sic] heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France's richest woman, has been written out of her will - depriving him of an estimated 1.25 billion euros.

Mrs Bettencourt's lawyer, Georges Kiejman, said that the 87-year-old billionairess has decided "enough was enough" and that Francois-Marie Banier should no longer be named in the will.

"Liliane Bettencourt feels she had already given a lot to Mr Banier, so she ended the arrangement which made him her sole named heir," he said.

Mr Kiejman said the change had been made in France in mid July, and no one else had been added to the will in his place.

Mr Banier, 63, was Mrs Bettencourt's sole legatee in the will drawn up in December 2007.

He was set to receive around eight percent of Mrs Bettencourt's fortune, or an estimated 1.25 billion euros, a member of Bettencourt's entourage said in July.

Mrs Bettencourt's estranged daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers and grandchildren would have received the rest of her fortune. >>> | Saturday, August 28, 2010

Banier n'est plus le légataire universel de Bettencourt

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Liliane Bettencourt et Francois-Marie Banier. Photos : Le Point

LE POINT: Le photographe François-Marie Banier n'est plus le légataire universel de Liliane Bettencourt, a affirmé samedi à l'AFP l'avocat de la milliardaire, Me Georges Kiejman, confirmant ce qu'il a déclaré au journal Le Monde daté de dimanche-lundi. C'est à la mi-juillet que Mme Bettencourt a mis fin à cette disposition, prévue dans son testament daté du 11 décembre 2007, a ajouté l'avocat. Elle a rédigé cette révocation sur une simple feuille, sans choisir de nouveau légataire, et ce document papier a été remis fin juillet à son notaire, Jean-Michel Normand. >>> Source AFP | Samedi 28 Août 2010

Sunday, July 25, 2010

François-Marie Banier, le meilleur ennemi de Françoise Meyers. Photo : leJDD.fr

Les secrets d'une déchirure

leJDD.fr: C'est une des familles les plus riches de France. C’était la plus discrète. Une vie rangée, derrière les hauts murs de propriétés splendides à l’abri des regards. Pas de vie tapageuse. Cet édifice a volé en éclats quinze jours après la mort d’André Bettencourt, en novembre 2007. Pour quelles raisons ? Le milliard d’euros de François-Marie Banier n’explique pas tout.

Le trio François- Marie, Liliane et André…

C’est un secret d’initiés que tous ceux qui ont approché les Bettencourt semblent partager. François-Marie Banier était aussi très proche d’André Bettencourt. Intime. "Ce n’est pas tout à fait exact", corrige-t-on dans l’entourage du photographe. "Liliane Bettencourt formait un très beau couple avec son mari, nuance un de leurs proches. Mais ils étaient libres tous les deux." Des personnages de roman, ce couple-là. Liliane Bettencourt, grande et magnifique femme, immensément riche. Et lui, André, un dandy élégant, raffiné. "Deux gentlemen", résume un avocat. >>> L.V. - Le Journal du Dimanche | Dimanche 25 Juillet 2010

LIBÉRATION: «Banier s’est mué en Raspoutine» : Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt, dans son audition mardi, a décrit l’emprise exercée sur sa mère. >>> Par Karl Laske | Samedi 24 Juillet 2010

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Künstler, Lebemann und Frauenliebling: Wer ist François-Marie Banier?

NZZ ONLINE: In der sogenannten Affäre Bettencourt taucht ein Name immer wieder auf: François-Marie Banier. Er soll von der L’Oréal-Erbin Liliane Bettencourt im Laufe der Jahre Geschenke und Geld im Wert von rund einer Milliarde Euro erhalten haben. Wer ist dieser Mann?

Ein vom Leben gezeichnetes Gesicht, schütteres Haar und ein intensiver Blick: So sieht heute der Mann aus, der indirekt die Affäre Bettencourt ausgelöst hat. François-Marie Banier hat sich in Frankreich einen Namen als Photograph und Schriftsteller, aber auch als Lebemann und Profiteur gemacht. Seine Fotobücher werden auch in Deutschland und den USA verlegt.

Auf seiner Website führt er auf, was er in seinem Leben geschaffen hat. Die Liste ist beeindruckend. Er sei, so schreiben mehrere Zeitgenossen über ihn, ein Besessener, ein Arbeitstier sowie ein Meister der Selbstinszenierung. In vierzig Jahren hat er offenbar ein beachtliches Vermögen angehäuft, welches ihm etwa erlaubt, Kunstwerke und seltene Fotografien an Auktionen zu erstehen. Er lebt wie ein Grand-Seigneur in einem Stadtpalais mit mehreren Angestellten. Doch angefangen hat er mit nichts. Weiter lesen und einen Kommentar schreiben >>> Isabelle Imhof | Freitag, 23. Juli 2010

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Photograph: Google Images

Four Detained in Liliane Bettencourt Scandal

THE TELEGRAPH: The financial adviser to Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, has been detained for questioning along with three others, amid a scandal that has embroiled the French government.

Patrice de Maistre, financial adviser to the 87-year-old, was being questioned by investigators, according to an official in the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

The others held include the celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, accused by Mrs Bettencourt's daughter of milking the heiress out of €1 billion in gifts.

Mrs Bettencourt's former tax lawyer, Fabrice Goguel, and the manager of an island in the Seychelles that she owns, Carles Vejarano, were also being held for questioning, the official said. The official was not authorised to be publicly named because of judicial policy. >>> | Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Nicolas Sarkozy Scandal Goes Back to Hungarian Roots

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The case of L'Oréal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, has enraptured France and forced Nicolas Sarkozy into the spotlight.

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One secret cash payment to Mr Sarkozy's presidential election campaign was said to be worth as much as €150,000, or £125,000

Before becoming a scandal about money, politics, art, history, café society and power, the Affaire Bettencourt, now threatening the Sarkozy presidency, is the story of two ferociously ambitious young Hungarian outsiders and their success at storming the citadels of the French establishment.

One, Nicolas Sarkozy, the son of a womanising émigré aristocrat and a doctor's daughter, used to be told by his (twice) remarried father on visiting Sundays that he would never amount to anything much in France, because of his foreign name, small stature and below-average school grades.

The other, François-Marie Banier, né Banyiaï, was regularly beaten by his Renault migrant worker turned ad-man father for being a dilettante, an aesthete, and a high-school drop-out. (By coincidence Pál Sarkozy, Nicolas's father, also dabbled in advertising for a while).

Mr Sarkozy has mentioned the slights he suffered as the least well-off boy of his chic school in Neuilly, Paris's richest suburb. Mr Banier neglected even to complete his baccalauréat, haunting luxury hotel lobbies from his teens on, becoming in rapid succession the favourite of such luminaries as the painter Salvador Dali, the Nobel-prize playwright Samuel Beckett, and the couturiers Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin. The Communist poet Louis Aragon enthused about the first novel Mr Banier published, aged 22.

Mr Sarkozy came to the attention of Charles Pasqua, the Gaullist party stalwart and key power-breaker [sic] who was to help shape most of his career, with his first public speech at a national rally: he was just 20 at the time.

Today Nicolas Sarkozy is president of the French Republic, while François-Marie Banier, a polymath photographer, painter and novelist, has recently been ranked 917th richest individual in the world, having accepted fabulous gifts from a string of wealthy old ladies, ranging from the viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles to the actress Silvana Mangano - and especially from his latest patron, Liliane Bettencourt, the 87-year-old L'Oréal heiress.

The two men, no longer so young (Mr Banier is 63, Mr Sarkozy 55) nor as pretty as they both once were, stand at each end of a glittering chain of achievements, events, relationships, networks and rivalries now threatening to engulf France in the kind of political meltdown not seen here since the 1930s. >>> Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in Paris | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Les personnes clés de L’affaire Bettencourt >>>

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An Ugly Fight Over L'Oreal [sic] Heiress' Fortune

LOS ANGELES TIMES: The daughter of France's richest woman says a charmer swindled her frail mother out of $1.25 billion in gifts. The family squabble has grown to include the courts and President Sarkozy.

Reporting from Paris — In a chic Paris suburb, inside the luxury villa of France's richest woman, nobody much cared what the butler saw.

When L'Oreal [sic] heiress Liliane Bettencourt met her advisors or lawyers to discuss secret Swiss bank accounts or lavish gifts to a male friend, the butler would simply bring in refreshments, then leave.

But what the butler heard, thanks to a cheap tape recorder smuggled in with the bone china teacups and silver spoons, has proved an explosive twist to a high-profile battle for the Bettencourt billions.

This month, celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, a 63-year-old socialite dandy, went on trial, accused of tricking Bettencourt, 87, out of art masterpieces, cash and insurance policies worth $1.25 billion.
FOR THE RECORD: This article states that the Bettencourt fortune is $28 billion. The heiress' fortune is listed at $18 billion.
Bettencourt's estranged daughter, Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt, is alleging in a civil lawsuit that he exploited her aging mother's frailty.

The case started out as a run-of-the-mill family dispute among Bettencourt, her only child and Banier over who gets what. It has become a political scandal embroiling government ministers and even President Nicolas Sarkozy. >>> Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sunday, July 04, 2010

L'Oreal [sic] Heiress Case Captures Imagination of France

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The French court case pitting the daughter of Liliane Bettencourt, the country's richest woman, against a photographer who received an £825m gift has fascinated the country.

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Francois-Marie Banier, (R), is accused of taking advantage of Liliane Bettencourt's, (L), frailty to persuade her to hand over a fortune. Photo: The Sunday Telegraph

It was the climax to an extraordinary week surrounding France's richest women. Liliane Bettencourt's compatriots had watched astounded as the evidence unfolded in the court case brought by her daughter against the photographer on whom she has showered almost €1bn (£825m).

They learned how the 87-year-old L'Oreal [sic] heiress was bugged by her butler with a tape recorder hidden among the bone china brought to her office; how she had not spoken to her estranged daughter, Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt, for years; and how Mrs Bettencourt had kept a Seychelles island and €80 million (£66 million) hidden from the tax man.

Francois-Marie Banier, 63, the society dandy and recipient of her largesse, is accused of taking advantage of the elderly dowager's frailty to persuade her to hand over a fortune - though far less than she had long ago bestowed on her daughter.

But among the accusations and pure theatre surrounding the one-day court hearing, now adjourned, came a genuine bombshell for the French government: the revelation that, amidst all her apparent tax evasion, it had granted her a €30 million (£25 million) tax rebate - despite not having examined her financial affairs for more than a decade.

And to cap it all, the rebate was allegedly signed off by a minister whose wife worked for the billionaire.

Employment minister Eric Woerth, whose wife helped manage Mrs Bettencourt's financial affairs, and who was budget minister at the time the rebate was paid, stood firm against calls for his resignation.

No, he had done nothing wrong, he responded. No, he had not signed the heiress's tax rebate. No, he would not resign. Mrs Bettencourt had been given the rebate under the "tax shield" introduced by President Nicolas Sarkozy that puts a 50 per cent ceiling on the taxes citizens pay on their income and combined assets. It was perfectly legal.

But critics of the close relationship between the French state and some of its wealthiest citizens questioned how the authorities could be so relaxed. >>> Kim Willsher in Paris | Sunday, July 04, 2010

La vieille dame et les requins

VALEURS ACTUELLES: Les enregistrements clandestins effectués par son majordome, mais aussi son interrogatoire par la police en disent long sur l’influence déterminante exercée par son entourage.

Qui aurait pu imaginer que l’affaire Bettencourt, qui n’était au départ que le ro­man sinistre d’un abus de faiblesse de la mère dé­noncé par sa fille, se transforme en une affaire d’État donnant lieu aux pires soupçons ? Soupçons d’intervention de l’Élysée dans le cours de la justice. Soupçons de mansuétude fiscale visant l’ancien ministre du Budget, Éric Woerth. Soupçons de conflit d’intérêts entre celui-ci et son épouse, salariée de la société de gestion de fortune de la propriétaire de L’Oréal et première contribuable de France.

Plus de deux ans après le début de cette affaire, Françoise Meyers, née Bettencourt, campe plus que jamais sur ses positions : oui, dit-elle, François-Marie Banier, le photographe écrivain, en recevant de Mme Bet­tencourt près de un milliard d’euros depuis 1997 sous forme de tableaux, d’assurance vie, etc., a profité de l’état de faiblesse de sa mère. >>> Gilles Gaetner | Jeudi 01 Juillet 2010

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Thursday, July 01, 2010

France : Affaire Bettencourt: procès reporté

LE TEMPS: Le tribunal de Nanterre a reporté, sine die, le procès de François-Marie Banier, photographe mondain soupçonné d’abus de faiblesse sur Liliane Bettencourt, la milliardaire française héritière de l’empire cosmétique L’Oréal

La présidente du tribunal, Isabelle Prévost-Desprez, s’est auto désignée pour conduire le complément d’enquête qui visera notamment des enregistrements clandestins de la milliardaire où apparaît le nom du ministre français du Travail Eric Woerth. Plus tôt, la défense du photographe François-Marie Banier avait demandé le renvoi du procès, estimant «nauséabonde», cette affaire qui a pris un tour politique.

Figure du tout-Paris, photographe des stars, François-Marie Banier, 63 ans, est accusé par la fille de la femme la plus riche de France, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, d’avoir profité de la fragilité de sa mère pour se faire remettre près d’un milliard d’euros dans les années 1990 et 2000. >>> AFP | Jeudi 01 Juillet 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Liliane Bettencourt Sets France Agog Over Links Between Money and Power

THE TELEGRAPH: Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and France's richest woman, is at the centre of a web of revelations about money, power and influence in the French Republic.

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Liliane Bettencourt and her 'adoptive son' Francois-Marie Banier. Photo: The Telegraph

Liliane Bettencourt is the nearest thing the French Republic has to the Queen: regal, elegant, impeccably groomed and wealthy.

As France's richest woman, the L'Oréal heiress occupies the constitutional twilight zone where the extraordinarily privileged meet the extremely political.

In this exclusive power group – rather like a masonic lodge without the aprons – influence and favours can be traded: donations given; promises made; gongs awarded; designer-draped backs scratched discreetly over champagne and canapés.

Discreetly, that was, until Mrs Bettencourt, 87, suffered a Paul Burrell moment – a blabby majordomo who secretly taped her private conversations. Now French citizens are reeling from previously inconceivable claims that their hair-dye queen has been fiddling her tax returns, employing a top government minister's wife and involved in what, if true, smacks of plans to pervert the course of justice.

The "Butlergate" tapes have brought a new twist to the bitter legal battle between Mrs Bettencourt and her only daughter who claims her ageing mother is no longer in a fit state of mind to manage the family fortune.

On Thursday, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt will start a private prosecution against a gay society photographer she claims took advantage of her mother's mental frailty to "manipulate" her out of €1 billion (£800 million).

François-Marie Banier, 63, the photographer, denies the charge of "abuse of weakness". He has received valuable works of art, cash and insurance policies from Mrs Bettencourt – who has also rejected the accusation, saying: "I can do what I like with my money." >>> Kim Willsher in Paris | Saturday, June 26, 2010

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Liliane Bettencourt continuera à gérer seule son argent

Liliane Bettencourt et sa fille, Françoise. Crédits photo : Le Figaro

LE FIGARO: Un juge des tutelles a rejeté la demande de protection judiciaire demandée par la fille de la milliardaire.

Le juge des tutelles de Neuilly-sur-Seine a refusé d'ouvrir une procédure de protection judiciaire visant Liliane Bettencourt, comme le lui demandait sa fille, révèle mercredi le Point.fr . Une information confirmée par l'avocat de la fille, Me Olivier Metzner.

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, fille unique de l'héritière et actionnaire principale de L'Oréal, avait saisi la semaine dernière le juge, en parallèle de la procédure engagée au pénal contre l'artiste François-Marie Banier. Elle l'accuse d'avoir abusé de la faiblesse de sa mère pour bénéficier de dons approchant le milliard d'euros. Il aurait, estime-t-elle, profité de sa mère, diminuée par «une affection neurologique».

La demande de protection judiciaire aurait pu aboutir à la mise sous tutelle de Liliane Bettencourt. Selon le Point.fr, le magistrat l'a rejetée en raison de l'absence de certificat médical de Liliane Bettencourt attestant de ce problème neurologique. L'ancienne dirigeante du groupe, contre toute attente, a en effet refusé de se soumettre à un examen médical. Le 13 mai 2008, pourtant, elle avait formellement accepté de s'y plier, afin de prouver qu'elle n'avait pas été «abusé» dans cette affaire et qu'elle avait bien toute sa tête. «Une femme libre et lucide» >>> Flore Galaud (lefigaro.fr) | Mercredi 09 Décembre 2009

«C'est mon premier devoir de fille»

LE FIGARO: Le Figaro s'est procuré la lettre que Françoise Bettencourt a fait porter à sa mère, Liliane, mercredi matin.

La fille de Lilianne Bettencourt, héritière du groupe l'Oréal, a saisi un juge des tutelles d'une demande de «protection judiciaire» de sa mère. Cette décision pourrait aboutir à son placement sous tutelle. Mardi, Françoise Bettencourt a fait déposer une lettre manuscrite d'une page au domicile de sa mère, à Neuilly. En voici le texte :
«Ma chère maman, aussi triste et douloureux que ce soit pour toi et pour moi, je tiens à t'écrire ces quelques mots. Au delà de la femme admirable (...) que tu es, qui a su accompagner le développement de cette belle entreprise fondée par ton père, tu es pour moi et avant tout ma maman. À entendre tous les témoignages qui me sont parvenus, je sais dans quelle situation d'isolement et d'emprise on t'a placée. On a voulu te faire rompre avec ta famille et t'éloigner de tous ceux, amis, employés, qui dans ton entourage étaient considérés comme “gênants”. Tout cela et ta santé, bien sûr, m'obligent à réagir, à ne pas me résoudre à fermer les yeux et à laisser les choses en l'état. C'est mon premier devoir de fille, je le pense profondément. J'ai déjà essayé en engageant il y a bientôt deux ans la procédure qui te contrarie tant mais cela n'a hélas pas suffit. C'est pourquoi je pense n'avoir d'autre choix, aujourd'hui, que de solliciter du juge civil ta protection. >>> | Jeudi 03 Décembre 2009
LE FIGARO: Les dons généreux de Liliane Bettencourt >>> Cyrille Louis | Vendredi 04 Décembre 2009

Le juge des tutelles refuse d'ouvrir une procédure visant à placer Liliane Bettencourt sous "protection judiciaire"

Crédits photo : LePoint.fr

LEPOINT.fr: Le juge des tutelles du tribunal d'instance de Neuilly a refusé d'ouvrir une procédure visant à placer Liliane Bettencourt sous "protection judiciaire", comme le lui avait demandé sa fille, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt, la semaine dernière. >>> Par Hervé Gattegno | Mercredi 09 Décembre 2009

Writer-photographer Francois-Marie Banier Faces Charges over €1bn 'Gifts'

TIMES ONLINE: A Parisian photographer and friend of celebrities was sent for trial today on charges of manipulating France's richest woman into giving him gifts worth nearly €1bn.

Judges approved a private action against Francois-Marie Banier, 62, who has been at centre of a mother-daughter feud over the fortune of Liliane Bettencourt, 87, heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics empire.

Mr Banier, a flamboyant socialite and friend of celebrities since the 1960s, is accused by Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, 56, Mrs Bettencourt's only child, of fleecing her mother during two decades of close friendship. The gifts he received included paintings by Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse.

Ms Bettencourt inherited her fortune — currently estimated at €10 billion (£9 billion) — from her father, Eugène Schueller, who founded the L’Oréal cosmetics company in 1909.

After a police investigation last year, the case was dropped but Ms Bettencourt-Meyers sought a private prosecution on charges of abusing a frail person, an offence which carries a possible three-year prison term. Her lawyers argued at a hearing yesterday that she was mentally impaired.

"Should a daughter ... who sees her mother in decline, under the power of a predator remain silent and do nothing?" Olivier Metzner, the daughter’s lawyer, asked the judges at Nanterre, in western Paris. "Mr Banier considers pain to be a merchandise," he added.

The case, with its airing of family secrets and supporting cast of celebrities including President Sarkozy, has appalled the discreet world of France’s super-rich. Ms Bettencourt-Meyers is accusing the Paris establishment of trying to stifle an affair which they find embarrassing. The judges over-ruled a request from the prosecutor in court yesterday to dismiss the case.

The photographer, whose past close friends included Salvador Dali, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin, confirmed this week that he received the gifts, in cash, life insurance policies and paintings. "These are gifts, which I refused for a long time," he told Le Monde. >>> Charles Bremner and Alexandra Mauviel | Friday, December 11, 2009

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THE TELEGRAPH: Because He Ain’t Worth It! >>>

THE INDEPENDENT: L'Oréal Heiress Gives €1bn to Photographer 'Because He's Worth It' >>> | Monday, December 15, 2008

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Weiblich und milliardenschwer - die reichsten Frauen der Welt >>> Von Alexandra Sillgitt | Samstag, 08. März 2008

Tuesday, December 08, 2009


Because He Ain’t Worth It!

THE TELEGRAPH: A French judge will examine whether Europe's richest woman, the elderly heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, should be stripped of the right to manage her own affairs after she showered gifts worth almost $1.5 billion on a friend.

Liliane Bettencourt, 87, says she was in full possession of her wits when she lavished cash, artworks and life insurance on photographer and socialite Francois-Marie Banier, 62, but her daughter disagrees and has taken her objections to the courts.

Lawyer Olivier Metzner, who represents the daughter, said that he had launched a civil procedure to try and have Mrs Bettencourt declared irresponsible and placed under the authority of a court-designated tutor.

The move is in addition to a separate criminal case in which the daughter, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, is pressing charges against Mr Banier, accusing him of taking advantage of an old lady's weakness to extort staggering sums from her.

"We have already taken action against the predator. Now we are taking action to protect my client's mother, to show that she is nothing more than a victim," said Mr Metzner. L'Oreal heiress facing scrutiny over $1.5bn gifts to male friend >>> | Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Affaire Bettencourt : Le procès débute sous haute tension – Joutes verbales entre avocats en guise d’échauffement

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Liliane Bettencourt. Photo : Gala.fr

GALA.fr: François Meyers-Bettencourt attaque l’ami de sa mère François-Marie Banier pour «abus de faiblesse» de sa mère Liliane, âgée de 87 ans. Alors qu’il ne s’agit que de déterminer si la requête est recevable ou non, les avocats commencent l’audience sur les chapeaux de roue.

Affaire n° 13, jour 1. L’audience est dite de consignation, et son issue décidera de la nécessité ou non d’ouvrir un procès.

Les forces en présence: d’un côté, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt, fille de Liliane, milliardaire, héritière du fondateur et principale actionnaire de l'Oréal, et dont la fortune est estimée à 17 milliards d’euros. En face d'elle: François-Marie Banier, photographe et ami de longue date de Liliane Bettencourt. La plaignante l’accuse en quelque sorte d’extorsion au détriment de madame Bettencourt.

Entre 2001 et 2007, Liliane aurait «dilapidé» environ 1 milliard d’euros en cadeaux divers, souscriptions de contrats d’assurance vie au profit du photographe, et autres versements. Elle a affirmé à plusieurs reprises qu’elle était en pleine possession de ses moyens au moment de contenter son ami. Un examen médical l'a d'ailleurs confirmé. : «Cela vient peut-être du fait que je m'entends bien avec François-Marie Banier. C'est un artiste, ça me motive» avait-elle déclaré au JDD en décembre 2008. >>> | Vendredi 04 Septembre 2009