2023-11-14 09:54:27
Jeanne Le Borgne 11/14/2023 at 10:54, Updated 11/14/2023 at 10:54
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Actress Arielle Dombasle claims to have “discovered with amazement the staging of her remarks” during the fictional documentary “The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal around the richest woman in the world” broadcast on Netflix.
In just eight days, the documentary series “The Bettencourt Affair: Scandal around the richest woman in the world” rose to the top of the audiences on the Netflix platform. And if the producers have managed the feat of bringing in key characters from this legal soap opera which hit the headlines in the 2010s, starting with the billionaire’s wealth manager, Patrice de Maistre, its staging is ready to criticism.
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The production alternates between scenes in the Bettencourt mansion with the soundtrack of sound recordings made clandestinely by the butler of the richest woman in the world and face-to-camera interviews with Patrice de Maistre, but also with journalists from Médiapart and Le Monde, lawyer Georges Kiejman (who died last May), as well as Arielle Dombasle.
“It’s all fiction, shortcuts, biases”
The actress and singer appears from the 13th minute of the first episode and is summoned regularly throughout the series to, it seems, comment on the scenes replayed by actors in the house in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The artist explains in particular that it was she who allowed the meeting between Liliane Bettencourt and the photographer François-Marie Banier at the end of the 1980s, which immediately gave her a central role in the affair (and in the documentary) .
However, Arielle Dombasle assures today in a press release sent to Paris Match that her interventions were “truncated” and “put her at the center of an affair of which she was only one witness among others”. “Everything is fiction, shortcuts, biases and Arielle Dombasle cannot accept finding herself an involuntary actress in this fictionalized masquerade,” insists the press release.
Arielle Dombasle was amazed to discover the staging of her remarks during the fictional documentary “The Bettencourt Affair” broadcast on Netflix.
The actress, who appears in a pretty red Japanese dress inside an empty theater, also accuses Netflix and the production company Quad Box of having “violated” her most essential rights. Namely his right to review the editing and “the insertion of his remarks in the program”.
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