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Butler’s tapes play role in French heiress trial (AP)

July 1st, 2010

FILE - This April 18, 2005 file photo shows L'Oreal's heiress Liliane Bettencourt at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The butler did it. Ahead of confidential talks between France's richest woman and her financial adviser, someone slipped a dictaphone into the room. It was the butler — and his secret recordings may force the delay of a high-profile trial pitting L'Oreal's billionaire heiress Liliane Bettencourt against her only daughter. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)AP - They were supposed to be confidential chats between France’s richest woman and her financial advisers, with topics ranging from secret Swiss bank accounts to her gift of a private luxury island to a friend.


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