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...What seems to have sparked the feud was Liliane’s friendship with François-Marie Banier, a celebrity photographer and society dandy, on whom she lavished gifts estimated at more than €1bn including her island...
...Grooming is also a fine art in Paris and no more so than at Marie Poirier in the 17th arrondissement, who washes and cuts the hair of dogs owned by celebrities such as film actor Jean Paul Belmondo....
...daughter complained, had become nonchalant in doling out cash and presents to what her daughter describes as a “predatory” entourage, to politicians, as well as her former photographer playboy friend François-Marie...
...Paul Betts is the Financial Times’ Senior Correspondent in Paris paul.betts@ft.com...
...But everybody immediately recognises that he has been to Marie Poirier....
...Paul Betts is a senior FT correspondent based in Paris paul.betts@ft.com...
...Ms Alliot-Marie will attend Kuwait’s national independence celebrations on Friday....
...Certainly anyone who has seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette can hardly have missed the lavish banquets and food that Meneau (the film’s culinary expert) produced for it....
...Now a small L’Oréal shareholder has filed a legal complaint alleging the misuse of company funds as a result of the 10-year artistic consultancy contract awarded to François-Marie Banier, the photographer...
...Her daughter Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt has launched legal action to claw back the money and gifts, including an island in the Indian Ocean, which her mother has doled out to the photographer François-Marie...
...Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt has launched legal action to claw back the money and gifts – including an island in the Indian Ocean – that her mother has over the years doled out to the photographer François-Marie...
...Turning to another would be master of the universe, a New York jury has cleared Jean-Marie Messier, the former Vivendi chief executive, of misleading investors over the parlous financial state of the company...
...The irony is that when the French entertainment and telecoms conglomerate nearly collapsed following the extravagant acquisition strategy of its former boss, Jean-Marie Messier, it was ready to sell control...
...I’m not very good at holidays but some years I rent a house on Formentera [the Balearic island] or stay with friends in the Ronda, Spain....
...Under its former maverick chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, the company sought to take on the world and nearly collapsed....
...Under Jean-Marie Messier, the maverick former chief executive, Vivendi tried to take on the world and almost collapsed. Mr Fourtou was called to the rescue and brought in Mr Lévy as chief executive....
...For those who may have forgotten, Jean-Marie Messier was the flamboyant former chairman of Vivendi....
...The controversy is still raging, but Mr Mitterrand will presumably be relieved by Mr Sarkozy’s intention of handing over this hot dossier to Michèle Alliot-Marie, his new justice minister....
...Vivendi at the time was still coping with the hangover from the Jean-Marie Messier era, which nearly sank the media and entertainment conglomerate....
...He was the man who halted Jean-Marie Messier, the flamboyant chairman of Vivendi Universal, whose extravagant Hollywood shopping spree nearly brought down the company....
...He was, after all, the man who halted Jean-Marie Messier, the flamboyant chairman of Vivendi Universal, whose extravagant Hollywood shopping spree nearly brought down the company....
...None more so than Jean-Marie Messier, the self-styled French Master of the Universe....
...Vivendi, at the time, was reeling and facing near collapse after the ill-fated reign of its former boss Jean-Marie Messier....
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