Died the richest woman in the world Liliane Betancur
French businesswoman and the heiress of the cosmetics company L’oreal Liliane Betancur died on 95-th year of life. About it reports Reuters, citing a statement from the family of Betancur.
Betancur, whose fortune Forbes magazine estimates at $44.7 billion, was the richest woman in the world. Her family owns in L’oreal 33.1% of the shares. In the list of the richest people in the world it occupied 14-e a place.
No details about the death of Betancur not reported. As noted by Bloomberg, she lived in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Husband of Lillian Andre Betancur died in 2007.
As the Financial Times, CEO of L’oreal Jean-Paul AGON, commenting on the death Betancur, noted the significant contribution that personally Betancur contributed to the success of the company. “She is a woman of great beauty, which left us and which we will never forget, he said. We all admired Lillian Betancur, which always cared about L’oreal about the company and its employees and was very attached to her success and development.”
“In this painful moment for us I would like to reiterate on behalf of our family our commitment and loyalty to L’oreal and to Express confidence in the President of the company Jean-Paul AGON and his team,” — said in a letter to françoise Betancur Myers, only daughter Lillian, reports Reuters.
Lillian Betancur, nee schüller, was born in Paris on 21 October 1922 in the family of the founder of L’oreal, Eugen Schüller. Mother Lillian died when she was five years old.
His father Betankur later recalled as a workaholic who got up at 4:00 every day. A chemist by profession, schüller in 1907 invented the first artificial non-toxic dye Aureole, which was sold in the Paris beauty salons. Two years later he registered his company, which at the time of birth Lilian was already pretty big. In 15 years, Betancur was sent to one of the plants of the father to stick labels on bottles of L’oreal products.