The Dark SECRET Behind L'Oréal

She was the richest woman in the world. She inherited the largest beauty company on earth from her father, and she spent her whole life protecting his name. When she died in 2017 she had been declared incapable of deciding what happened to her own money. Her father registered that company in 1909 under a name that said exactly what he was selling. The French Company of Harmless Hair Dyes. Thirty years later, in an office building on the Rue Matignon above the laboratories, men were meeting after dark. One of the people watching them was a young factory worker who informed for the Paris police. In May 1937 she was found dead in an empty carriage on the Métro with a stiletto buried in her neck. This is the story of what that chemist paid for, who he hired once the war was over, and how it stayed buried for fifty years. Listen to House of Ruin as a podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0341KDm... House of Ruin tells the dark true stories behind the world's greatest empires. Subscribe for a new story every week. Éric Woerth was tried and acquitted of all charges. The case against Nicolas Sarkozy was dropped for lack of evidence. #LOreal #DarkHistory #Documentary #TrueStory #Bettencourt #FrenchHistory #HouseOfRuin