It's called a radio moment that will delight the many spectators of "The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal around the richest woman in the world", the Netflix documentary released on November 8 on the American platform .
For the first time this Tuesday, February 20 in the morning, François-Marie Banier, the dandy photographer, reacts to this three-part series, which immerses us in this stunning affair surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in the world.
A scandal that became a state affair which earned him a four-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 375,000 euros in 2016 for “abuse of weakness”.
However, he escaped payment of damages of 158 million euros.
“Your whole life has been the fruit of encounters, you have seduced by your charm, your beauty and your demonic side, as said in this Netflix documentary that you have not seen,” begins Léa Salamé, immediately cut off by her interlocutor.
“If I saw it, I just saw it and I’m very happy to have seen it!
I'm going to sue them twice plus another for counterfeiting!
» he retorted calmly but surely, when he had come to present his book “Interrupted Dialogues”.
“It’s very nice what she says but it’s totally false”
Léa Salamé continues with the documentary and launches an extract where we hear Arielle Dombasle say about him: “He is capable of seducing whoever he wants with a devilish side”.
Response from François-Marie Bannier in the studio: “What’s very funny is that I haven’t seen Arielle Dombasle for forty years.
It's quite funny.
What she says is very nice but it's totally false.
Like the people who saw me with Madame Castaing (
a rich decorator with whom he had a relationship and whom some accused him of having taken advantage of
) even though Madame Castaing never received them.
So the fact that I took advantage of Madame Castaing was judged by the courts to be false and that I wanted to be adopted as false too.”
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“You don’t have the right to express yourself on this matter, you do it a little anyway,” Léa Salamé pointed out to him at the Inter microphone.
And for him to add: “I will not write my version
(of his meeting with Liliane Bettencourt)
because the people we take for idiots understood everything, so they know who she was… I did not go off the rails faced with all this money, surely not!
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