ロレアル・パリのベッテンコートさんのFMが自殺

ついにユダヤ陰謀論を流させてる某ご本尊様のお膝元まで被害が・・・（爆ｗ

日本じゃ伏せられててあまり知られてませんが、国際的コスメ、化粧品メーカー、ロレアルの創業者の方はユダヤ人をアウシュビッツとかに送り込んでたナチスの協力者だったんですよね。（ｗ

そのお孫さんは皮肉にもアウシュビッツに入れられてたユダヤ人の息子と結婚されたわけですが、現在彼女は母親と猛烈に闘争中。（ｗ

で、モナコってのがそいつらのマネロンのメッカの一つでして、あのデューク更家さんもお住まいでしたね。（ｗ

で、日本にも天皇を祭り上げてナチスを復活させようと企む方々がおられるわけですよ。光方面とか・・・（ｗ

■ 米巨額詐欺事件で自殺者、14億ドル投資の仏人CEO

【ニューヨーク=佐々木良寿】
米証券界の大物バーナード・マドフ容疑者による巨額投資詐欺事件で被害を受けたヘッジファンドの仏人経営者がニューヨーク・マンハッタンの事務所で死亡しているのが23日、見つかった。

被害を苦にしての自殺とみられる。今回の事件に絡んで死者が出たのは初めて。

死亡していたのは、ヘッジファンド「アクセス・インターナショナル・アドバイザーズ」の創業者で最高経営責任者(CEO)のルネティエリ・マゴン・ドラビーユウシェット氏(65)。同氏は、主に欧州の投資家から集めた資金14億ドル(約1260億円)をマドフ容疑者の投資会社を通じて運用していたという。

最終的に、被害総額500億ドル(約4兆5000億円)に上るともみられる今回の投資詐欺事件は、投資家からの資金を投資には回さず別の投資家への配当や償還に充てていたもので、最初の犯行は1970年代にまでさかのぼる可能性も浮上、捜査当局は全容解明に全力を挙げている。

* Yomiuri Online (2008/12/24-11:19)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20081224-OYT1T00298.htm

読売さんが肝心の件をスルーされてる件。（ｗ

L’Oreal Heiress Bettencourt Said to Have Invested With Madoff
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By Saijel Kishan and Katherine Burton

Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s wealthiest woman, entrusted part of her $22.9 billion fortune with Bernard Madoff through the fund manager found dead in New York yesterday, two people familiar with the matter said.

The 86-year-old daughter of L’Oreal SA founder Eugene Schueller was the first investor in a fund managed by Access International Advisors, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because her investment isn’t public. The body of Access co-founder Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65, was found in his Madison Avenue office yesterday. Police said he probably killed himself.

Bettencourt, a Parisian, joins wealthy individuals from around the world, including Spanish billionaire Alicia Koplowitz, U.S. moviemaker Steven Spielberg and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, among victims of what Madoff, 70, told investigators was a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

“More high-profile names who have been victimized by Madoff will start to become known now,” said Ron Geffner, who represents hedge funds at the New York-based law firm Sadis & Goldberg LLP. “There’s a strong sense of anguish, fear and distrust.”

Calls and e-mails to Fondation Bettencourt Schuelle, the foundation she started in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur- Seine, weren’t returned. Bettencourt ranked 17th in Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people in 2008, the highest-ranking woman. Access, which oversaw $3 billion, raised money mainly from wealthy European investors.

‘Extensive’ Due Diligence

Access said in a Dec. 12 letter to clients that funds including its LUXALPHA SICAV-American Selection invested solely with Madoff’s eponymous investment firm. The fund had $1.4 billion in assets as of Nov. 17, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Access says it carries out “extensive” due diligence on the funds to which it allocates money, a process that can take as long as six months and cost $100,000. It also hires private investigators to run “extensive background checks” on fund managers, including searches on professional credentials, regulatory filings and bankruptcy, according to marketing documents dated September.

New York police are working on the assumption that de La Villehuchet’s death was a suicide, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday. The fund manager was found “with his feet propped up on his desk, a trash pail nearby to collect blood,” and no sign of a second person, Kelly said in the interview.

Body at Desk

He had cuts made by a box-cutter in the area of his biceps and his wrist, and pills were found nearby, Kelly said at a news conference. No suicide note was found. His body was found at his desk early yesterday morning by a security guard who had been called by an employee unable to enter the office, Kelly said.

Villehuchet founded Access in 1994 with Patrick Littaye. One of the firm’s partners was Philippe Junot, according to the marketing documents. Junot is the former husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco. Prince Michel of Yugoslavia is an investor relations executive, according to the documents.

Prior to Access, De La Villehuchet was chairman and CEO of Credit Lyonnais Securities USA, the U.S. investment banking arm of the French bank. He had joined Credit Lyonnais in 1987, and before that ran Interfinance, an international broker firm specializing in French, Belgian and Italian stock markets that he founded in 1983. He worked at Banque Paribas from 1970 to 1983.

Access, which had 26 employees, said in a statement on Dec. 12 it was working with lawyers to assess its exposure to Madoff. UBS AG, LUXALPHA’s administrator until this year, is no longer involved with it, said Karina Byrne, a UBS spokeswoman.

De La Villehuchet’s death comes as lawsuits mount in connection with investors victimized by Madoff. Fairfield Greenwich Group, a hedge-fund firm that had $7.5 billion invested with Madoff, has been sued for allegedly failing to protect its clients’ assets. Madoff was arrested on Dec. 11 and is now under house arrest at his apartment in New York.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.mL6Nm9f57w&refer=home


L'Oréal heiress gives €1bn to photographer 'because he's worth it'

Cosmetics giant's elderly matriarch faces challenge from angry daughter over shock bequest. John Lichfield reports from Paris

Monday, 15 December 2008



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Liliane Bettencourt, left, and François-Marie Banier: The photographer is said to be virtually an adopted son

An unseemly mother-daughter dispute threatens to smudge the glittering public face of L'Oréal, the world's most successful cosmetics company. The mental capacity of L'Oréal's chief shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt, 86, to manage her €23bn (£20.5bn) fortune has been challenged by her only child, Françoise.


Mme Bettencourt, one of the world's wealthiest women and a renowned philanthropist, is reported to have funded life insurance policies worth nearly €1bn which benefit a jet-set photographer, artist and author whom she has befriended. Her daughter has brought a legal action which suggests that her mother's great age makes her vulnerable to "abuse".

The complaint was first made almost a year ago but details have just emerged in the French press. An investigative website, Bakchich.info, reported that police had discreetly interviewed both Mme Bettencourt and the man who is said to have become virtually her adopted son, François-Marie Banier.

M. Banier, 61, is a playwright, novelist and above all a photographer and friend of the glitterati, ranging from Johnny Depp to Princess Caroline of Monaco. He is said to be the sole beneficiary of several life insurance policies, endowed over many years by Mme Bettencourt.

According to Bakchich.info and the Journal du Dimanche, Mme Bettencourt confirmed the existence of the insurance policies to investigators but said that she knew exactly what she was doing and could "sponsor" whoever she liked. To borrow L'Oréal's own catch-phrase, she was giving part of her fortune to M. Banier "because he was worth it".

Mme Bettencourt declined to undergo medical examinations to prove her mental capacity.

The row is part of a long-simmering dispute between mother and daughter, who have hardly spoken to each other for several years. Both Mme Bettencourt and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers are board members of L'Oréal which had a global turnover of €17.1bn in 2007 and employs 63,000 people worldwide. Other board members include Mme Bettencourt Meyers's husband, Jean-Pierre Meyers, and the Cheshire-born businessman Lindsay Owen-Jones, who built L'Oréal to its present pinnacle in his 18 years as chief executive of the company before he stood aside in 2006.

L'Oréal was founded by Mme Bettencourt's father, Eugene Schueller. She married the French politician André Bettencourt, a friend of the late President François Mitterrand, in 1950. She still owns 27.5 per cent of the stock of L'Oréal and has used her fortune, among other things, to fund the Bettencourt-Schueller foundation which invests in medical research, helping the illiterate and housing for the homeless.

A confidante of her daughter told the Journal du Dimanche yesterday that Mme Bettencourt Meyers had brought the legal action because she feared that her mother was no longer in control of her actions. "She is not looking for any money, but is afraid, quite simply, that her mother, at her advanced age, is about to fritter away her fortune," the confidante said.

Mme Bettencourt's lawyer, François Goguel, told the newspaper: "She is travelling in the United States at present and is very well. She does not wish to make any comment on what is a private affair."

The lawyer said, however, that the €1bn figure had been "exaggerated" and that the gifts to M. Banier, in the form of insurance policies, had been made freely over a number of years.

Mme Bettencourt lives in a large house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the wealthy suburb just west of the Paris city boundary which was for many years the political fiefdom of President Nicolas Sarkozy. The public prosecutor for Nanterre, who covers the Neuilly area, must now decide whether to launch a full investigation or let the matter drop.

Mme Bettencourt is known to have one of the finest private collections of art in France. She has donated several works, including paintings by Pablo Picasso, to M. Banier but they are not covered by her daughter's legal action.

M. Banier has written several novels and plays but is best known as a photographer with privileged access to the famous. His friends include the actress Isabelle Adjani and the fashion designer Pierre Cardin. He is also a close friend of the celebrity acting couple Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, whose relationship began at M. Banier's home in the south of France.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/loral-heiress-gives-euro1bn-to-photographer-because-hes-worth-it-1067049.html


Eugène Schueller
Controversy
During the early twentieth century, Schueller provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L'Oréal headquarters. La Cagoule was a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group. L'Oréal hired several members of the group as executives after World War II, such as Jacques Corrèze, who served as CEO of the U.S. operation. This involvement was extensively researched by Michael Bar-Zohar in his book, Bitter Scent.

Eugène Schueller actively assisted the Vichy regime and directly assisted the Nazis in taking Jewish private property, destroying synagogues and other Jewish monuments, and in shipping Jews to Nazi concentration camps.


[edit] Family
Schueller's daughter, Liliane Bettencourt, is the widow of André Bettencourt. Together, they have one daughter, Françoise Meyers, who is a member of L'Oréal's board of directors. Françoise Meyers is married to Jean-Pierre Meyers, both of whose parents died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. She is currently the richest woman in the world, with holdings estimated at $22.9 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Schueller