Dinners, cash and Sarkozy: what Bettencourt's accountant told Mediapart

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Over a period of 13 years, Claire Thibout, 52, was employed by L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt as an accountant. She worked for both the Bettencourt household and for Clymène, the company that manages the billionaire's wealth.


In an exclusive interview with Mediapart she gave details of how, over many years, Liliane Bettencourt and her late husband André, previously a minister in several governments, gave cash donations to French politicians during visits to their family home close to Paris.


That interview, first published in July and reproduced below here, had the effect of a political bombshell. Among those she alleges took cash donations, handed out in manila envelopes after dinner, was Nicolas Sarkozy - before he became president. "Everyone in the household knew about it," she told Mediapart.


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