A lawyer for France's richest woman says his client, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, has refused to undergo medical tests aimed at determining whether she was in a weak state when she lavished a friend with euro1 billion ($1.44 billion) in gifts and cash. A judge ordered 87-year-old Bettencourt to undergo the tests before the April trial of ...

A photographer accused of being a gold digger after he received a billion euros in gifts from France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, will face trial in April, a court ruled on Friday. Bettencourt's daughter filed a suit in court, arguing that her mother, the 87-year-old billionaire heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, was mentally incompetent. The court ...

A French court on Friday ordered a photographer accused of bilking France's richest woman out of cash and art worth euro1 billion ($1.5 billion) to stand trial for exploitation. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has waged a two-year legal campaign against the man she accuses of taking advantage of Liliane Bettencourt, her 87-year-old mother and the heiress to the French ...

A French photographer defended himself Wednesday against accusations of being a gold digger after he received nearly one billion euros in gifts from France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt. Bettencourt's daughter last week filed suit in court, arguing that her mother, the elderly heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, was mentally incompetent and her affairs should be placed ...