Françoise Bettencourt Meyers

Françoise Bettencourt- Meyers (* July 10, 1953 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) is a French industrialist heiress and author of Bible commentaries and works on Jewish- Christian Relations.

The only daughter and heiress of the Industrial Liliane Bettencourt was raised in a strict Catholic upper-class household. In 1984 she married the grandson of the murdered in Auschwitz rabbi of the synagogue Neuilly -sur -Seine, Jean -Pierre Meyers. After marriage, she decided to convert to Judaism and the children Jean -Victor (* 1986) and Nicolas ( * 1988) to educate in the Jewish religion.

The Meyers family lives rather withdrawn in Neuilly -sur -Seine.

In December 2008 it was announced that her mother Liliane Bettencourt has given away between 2001 and 2007 nearly one billion euros in the form of paintings, Real Estate, Checks and life insurance to the French photographer François -Marie Banier. She had Banier originally appointed heir. As announced in September 2010, it has its heritage status now canceled again. On 1 December 2009 Francoise Meyers applied to court to ask the mother under guardianship.