In “The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal among the richest woman in the world”, Arielle Dombasle testifies to return to the meeting between the heiress and François-Marie Banier. Today, the actress points out a “staging” by Netflix.
“So, uh, I don’t feel the light.“The arrival of Arielle Dombasle in the number one documentary on Netflix, The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal among the richest woman in the world, is very notable. Her testimony is just as much.
It was she who introduced the photographer François-Marie Banier to the heiress Liliane Bettencourt. She was far from suspecting that this meeting would, a few months later, turn into an influence. In ten years, from 1997 to 2007, François-Marie Banier will receive 917 million euros from the octogenarian.
The testimony of Arielle Dombasle is important because, a major personality in Parisian social life, she is also in contact with Liliane Bettencourt’s daughter, Françoise Bettencourt – who will discover the staggering sums received by the photographer.
Except that the actress and singer is furious with Netflix and the production company behind the documentary.
She denounces a “staging” Or “everything is fiction, shortcuts, biases“. In a press release, its representatives explain that “her truncated interventions punctuate the program and put her at the center of an affair of which she was only one witness among others.”
“This is why she demanded, and obtained, that Production grant her the opportunity to review her testimony “so that it validates the editing of her remarks and their insertion in the program“, the press release continues.
She sincerely hoped, based on the production’s written promises, that her testimony would serve a truth, honesty and objectivity entirely absent from the final product.“
Esteeming himself “involuntary actress of a fictionalized masquerade” And “victim of a lie“, Arielle Dombasle and her representatives affirm that a formal notice is sent to Netflix and Quad Box production”so that the truth is revealed about the fraudulent use of his testimony, which causes him both material and moral harm.”
The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal Among the Richest Woman in the World is available on Netflix.