Léone-Noëlle Meyer (born 8 November 1939) is a French heiress, pediatrician, businesswoman and philanthropist.
She has made humanitarian trips to South America, Africa and Asia, and she has supported Jewish causes and the Paris Opera.
[4] She subsequently worked in ambulances for medical emergencies, and she taught at the Baudelocque Port-Royal Midwife School.
[4] She donated a sailing boat to the École des mousses in the Brest Naval Training Centre in 2011.
[4] Meyer resides in Paris,[1] and she serves on the board of the synagogue on the rue Copernic in the 16th arrondissement.
[8] In 2016, after a long legal battle, during which the museum refused to restitute Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (Bergère rentrant des moutons) by Camille Pissarro, Meyer arrived at a settlement with Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, and was able to bring the painting back to France.
[14] The Fred Jones Jr Museum sued Meyers, demanding that she be fined "$3.5m in the US and face penalties of up to $100,000 a day for contempt of court if she does not halt proceedings in France in which she is seeking full ownership of the impressionist work".
[15] On 1 June 2021, Meyer, who was 81 years old, abandoned the fight, relinquishing ownership of the Pissarro painting to the University of Oklahoma, stating, "I have no other choice.