This is CRAZINESS! A filthy rich French heiress is giving ONE BILLION dollars to her “friend,” a man 25 years younger than her. Her daughter is trying to sue to stop her from doing it! It’s like Anna Nicole in reverse!

Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics empire, lashed out Sunday at her daughter for questioning her right to donate a billion dollars in gifts to a society photographer.

Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers claims that her 86-year-old mother, France’s richest woman, was charmed by an unscrupulous dandy 25 years her junior into parting with close to a billion dollars in artworks, gifts and life insurance.

She has filed suit against Francois-Marie Banier, 61, Latin Quarter artist, jet-set photographer and long-standing friend of the Bettencourts, suggesting her mother’s faculties must be impaired for her to part with such a vast sum.

According to letters published by Le Monde newspaper, Bettencourt — who insists she is a “free woman” in full grip of her senses — responded with a threat to slash her child’s share of a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at 23 billion dollars.

But in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, Bettencourt insisted she had done nothing to fritter away her capital, and that her daughter would inherit the family’s full 30-percent stake in L’Oreal. “She will get everything when I die,” she said, asking “What on earth has got into her? … What I gave to Francois-Marie Banier, although it is a large sum, is really not that much when put in proportion,” she said, without confirming the value of the gifts.

Bettencourt accused her 55-year-old daughter — with whom she has no contact — of acting out of “meanness” or to “settle old scores”.

“Jealousy could be part of it,” she said, suggesting her “introverted” daughter suffered in contrast with Banier, a flamboyant figure whose intimates have ranged from Salvador Dali to the Hollywood star Johnny Depp.

Mother and daughter long worked hand in hand to manage the family’s stake in L’Oreal, and retain control of the group whose second-biggest shareholder is the Swiss giant Nestle.

But Bettancourt said their personal relationship was over.

“I don’t see her any more and I don’t want to,” she said.

WOW.

Money definitely can’t buy happiness, folks.

Okay, okay, for once I actually feel kind of bad for Paris. I remember when I was a kid, when my dad was fresh out of med school and we didn’t have much money, we lived in a pretty crappy part of town, and our house got broken into once every couple of years. I was too young to understand most of it, but my father had given me one of those huge plastic containers that goes on top of water coolers and I had, over the course of several years, filled it with nickels and pennies. I was so proud of it. Then the thieves came and stole my mom’s jewelry — given to her by her grandmother — and my 7-year-old life’s savings. Seriously, those bastards must have carried 30 pounds of fucking nickels out of the house with them. Evil evil people. I was devastated. I cried for days. So I actually kind of feel for Paris when she talks about how she’s sad about having all her shit stolen. It’s not like I needed those nickels, but it still really hurt that someone would steal them.

“I am devastated. I cannot believe someone broke into my home. They took items that had such sentimental value that no one will ever be able to replace,” Hilton told Life & Style Weekly. “I’m just thankful that I wasn’t there when it happened.”

The blonde socialite was out and about in Los Angeles when the robbery occurred. An insider close to Paris reveals to the magazine that “millions of dollars of jewelry was stolen — diamonds, necklaces, rings, watches and family heirlooms from her grandmothers.”

Luckily, Paris caught the thief on security cameras — giving police a lead on who broke in. “Paris has surveillance cameras set up in every room,” said the insider. “The thief was wearing a black hoody and knew exactly where to go, like he’s been there before.”

The insider adds, “Detectives are doing a huge investigation.”

Her mom Kathy’s keeping a positive outlook about it:

She and I were talking about it and really, it is stuff,” Kathy told E! News in an exclusive TV interview Saturday in the living room of her Beverly Hills-area home. “I’m just happy that she’s okay. But you can’t be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things. And I’m happy that she’s okay.”

As to what happened that night, Hilton added, “I think the police are investigating it right now. You’ll probably know before I do.”

To make matters worse for Paris, reports are swirling that the aging heiress is rapidly becoming persona non grata at hot Hollywood events:

The same night she was burgled of $2 million in jewels, she was reportedly reduced to hanging out with only her as-seen-on-TV BFF Brittany Flickinger, only to leave L.A. restaurant Saam just before Christina Aguilera arrived to celebrate her birthday with hubby Jordan Bratman, Nicole Richie, Joel Madden and (Paris’ ex) Benji Madden.

Poor Paris!

I am SO curious to find out who robbed her. If she has all those security cameras, why weren’t the doors locked? How did this guy get in there? Is it possible Paris actually staged this shit to keep herself in the spotlight? Wouldn’t put it past her …

Wendie ran the first batch this weekend; you can see them here. Now there are even more, plus a video of Amy dancing topless on her balcony. I’m not joking. It’s here.

You know what’s weird?

Despite all the hell she puts her body through, she still has really nice tits. I guess the gods of evolution (is that an oxymoron?) want us to keep our reproductive organs intact no matter what.

I also love how, without her crazy wig beehive, she’s totally rocking the Jew-fro. Like, underneath the rock-star career and the crack habit, this is just a nice Jewish girl who took a few wrong turns along the way …

I spent Sunday sledding on a freeway exit and searching for a cell phone in two feet of snow with a metal detector, but Jordin Sparks? Arrived in Perth, Australia, where the sun shines as brightly as her virginity.

Personally, I’d rather be covered in snow and, on occasion, semen.

For all my favorite Jews! Happy Hanukkah!  And to all Evil Beet readers, have a wonderful holiday season!

I can’t believe this has taken three years.  Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony may finally be on the rocks. 

Evidence:

1)  Jennifer attended The Curious Case of Benjamin Button premiere without her husband or her wedding ring.

2)  Marc Anthony has been appearing publicly without his wedding band.

3)  Sources cite Anthony’s controlling personality and unfaithful ways as issues within the marriage.

4)  Anthony was spotted at Bungalow 8 and Marquee with his hand on the thing of a woman not Jennifer.

5)  Jennifer is reportedly sick of being a “Long Island housewife”.

Seriously Jen, what did you expect?  Didn’t your husband leave his wife so he could marry you?  That’s never a good indicator of longevity.  Also, housewifery is hell and basically sucks no matter who you are. 

I feel bad for J. Lo.  Whenever I’ve seen the two of them together on the red carpet or in interviews, I’ve always had the impression that she is way more into him than he is in to her.  Which is an absolutely flummoxing concept.

Life & Style is reporting that a doctor rushed to the home of Samantha Ronson yesterday and X17 is reporting that she was rushed to the hospital today.  Who knows which is true but my money is on X17.  Either way, Sam is suffering from the most widespread illness in Hollywood:  Exhaustion and stress.  

According to a source, “She’s been suffering from depression and from lack of food and sleep,” and that Lindsay “has been helping her through this as she has been through it herself two years ago.”

I’ve been exhausted and stressed and depressed for nine years straight.  I never knew this was something that warranted medical attention.  I really need to be rich and famous so I can go get some rest too.