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Last updated: December 7, 2010 11:05 am
This interactive timeline tracks the donations scandal that surrounded Liliane Bettencourt, France’s wealthiest woman and L’Oréal heiress, and provides a potted history of the cosmetic giant.
What began as a family dispute, with Ms Bettencourt’s only child Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers seeking to have her mother made a ward of court, spiralled into a political scandal engulfing some of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s key ministers and allegations of illicit political donations.
Use the interactive timeline below to see how events developed..
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This graphic was archived on December 06 2010
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