[1] She is the only child and heir of Liliane Bettencourt, and the granddaughter of Eugène Schueller, founder of L'Oréal.
She married Jean-Pierre Meyers, business executive and grandson of a rabbi murdered at Auschwitz.
[5][4] Her marriage caused controversy because her grandfather Eugène Schueller, L'Oreal's founder, had been prosecuted for collaboration with the Nazi government.
[9] After a fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, Bettencourt Meyers and L'Oréal pledged $226 million to repair the cathedral.
[11] Later, in December 2023, she was reported as the first woman with an estimated net worth of US$100 billion, according to Forbes;[1][12] at that time, she was listed in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as the 12th richest person in the world.