He has also written for Vanity Fair, Fortune, and other leading magazines. In , he co-authored the international bestseller Death of a Princess St. Under the stage name Tommy Sancton, he is also a well-known jazz clarinetist with more than a dozen albums to his credit. Purchase options and add-ons. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade.
At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France.
Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? But Banier has a far different story to tell The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.
Report an issue with this product. Previous slide of product details. Print length. Publication date. August 7, See all details. Next slide of product details. The story has all the trappings of a juicy affair, including graft and hidden Nazi sympathies. A well-researched, crisply written, and entertaining story of family, greed, wealth, and the complex relations among them.
The Bettencourt Affair is a devilishly engaging immersion into a world few of us can imagine. Money, class, art, greed, intrigue, seduction, betrayal, and politics. It reads like a novel—a racy and intense thriller—but it's all true.
