The Paris mansion of L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman has been raided by police in the latest twist in a family row that has escalated into a political scandal. The raid is in connection with the legal case between Ms Bettencourt and her only child. Francoise Bettencourt Myers claims her 87-year old mother is mentally frail having lavished €1bn of gifts on her friend, Francois-Marie Banier, a society photographer and has asked for her to be made a ward of court. – FT
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