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Why Did the World’s Richest Woman Give a Gay Artist Nearly a Billion Dollars?

ARISTOCRATS BEHAVING BADLY

It’s the greatest scandal in 21st century Paris. By one police estimate, $1 billion was given by the L’Oréal heiress to François-Marie Banier, but it came with a very heavy price.

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