French billionaire Françoise Bettencourt Myers retained the title of the richest woman in the world for the third year in a row, with a net worth of $ 80.5 billion, up $ 5.7 billion from last year, according to the classification of the American magazine "Forbes" published on Tuesday.

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, 69, is the rightful heiress of her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, who died in 2017 aged 94 and was also the richest woman in the world. Françoise inherited a fortune of $49.3 billion in 2019.

In September 2017, Françoise Bettencourt Myers joined the list of the world's richest people for the first time. Her story continues to be told on International Women's Day, which takes place on the eighth of March each year, to signify the general respect, appreciation and love of women for their economic, political and social achievements.

Françoise lives with her family in Paris, France, and is married to Jean-Victor Myers, the grandson of a rabbi killed in a famous incident, and they have two sons.

Positions held by Françoise Bettencourt Myers:

  • Chairperson of the Beittencore Family Foundation and Bettencourt Schuyler, to provide services for the common good in society, and funding depends on donations from the family of its founders only.
  • She was initially an academic, wrote several books on Jewish-Christian relations and Greek mythology, and published books on Greek mythology and Jewish-Christian relations.
  • She is the head of the charity created by her family, which works to encourage French progress in science and literature.
  • She started at L'Oréal when she was just 15 years old, an assistant sticking data labels on shampoo bottles, then progressed through the years, until she became a board member of L'Oréal since 1997.

Myers is ranked 11th on the list of the world's richest people, up from 14th last year. She is one of only 337 women on the Forbes Billionaires List for 2023, making up just 13% of the wealthy list of 2640,<> billionaires.

The majority of the businesswoman's fortune comes from her stake in the L'Oréal cosmetics group.

The company, founded by Myers' grandfather more than 100 years ago, generated $38.2 billion in revenue in 2022 and employs more than 85,<> people.

L'Oréal's stock is up 12% over the past year, thanks to strong demand that led to better-than-expected earnings and record sales for 2021. Myers controls about 33 percent of the company with her family.

Although Françoise is the heiress of L'Oréal Cosmetics, she is not known for taking great care of her appearance (Reuters)

Bloomberg published a report on the most important tips and secrets of French billionaire Françoise Bettencourt Myers.

Top tips of Françoise Bettencourt Myers

  • Know the value of your time: Françoise sees time as the greatest resource, the only thing you can't go back to, so you have to prioritize your life and work.
  • Be curious: At the beginning of her life, Françoise advocated adhering to a strict school of thought known in many entrepreneurial circles, known for "sticking to what you know", and advocating not to invest or experiment with what you do not know. After living for many years, Françoise came to believe in the opposite, by maintaining an open mind for new ideas.
  • Control your thoughts: Most of Françoise's lessons and lessons came from failures, setbacks and defeats. Although it is painful, she says it is the main reason for developing self-awareness. Françoise believes that ambiguity can narrow the scope of thinking and perspectives, so people miss out on many promising opportunities.

Highlights of her life:

  • In 2008, Françoise accused photographer François-Marie Pannier of exploiting what she considered the weakness of her 87-year-old mother to obtain various donations worth a total of about one billion euros, taking on political dimensions, and the case became known throughout France as the "Bettencourt affair".
  • She and her mother had a long-running dispute in 2007, with Françoise filing a lawsuit claiming she had fears her mother was being exploited by those around her amid her deteriorating health. But the two women reached reconciliation one year before the mother's death.

Françoise is known to surprise everyone, as she is the heiress of the "L'Oréal" cosmetics company, yet she does not care about her external appearance, she cares about the essence more than anything else, according to most foreign newspaper reports.