Many have called it a socio-cultural earthquake, a reckoning on France’s systemic problem with women. At the epicenter of the trial are 51 men, all who lived within a 30-mile radius of one another.

Wildenstein often downplayed the extent of her procedures, claiming the “cat eyes” she was so infamous for were a family ...

The rich, of course, are different from us. It’s not merely that they have more money. It’s that no one will say no to them. For Jocelyn Wildenstein, that meant she was known chiefly not for the ...