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- BUSINESS, Page 56Business NotesSCANDALL'Oreal's Dark Roots
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- The French call it "L'Oreal's greatest moral scandal." A
- corporate feud has focused attention on the pro-Nazi leanings
- of the beauty giant's founders. As a result, the U.S. Justice
- Department is weighing banishment from American soil for Jacques
- Correze, the honorary head of L'Oreal's U.S. affiliate, Cosmair.
- The turmoil began after Jean Frydman, a Jewish film mogul,
- decided to sell his share in Paravision, a L'Oreal-backed movie
- firm. Unhappy with L'Oreal's offer, he sued, making some
- provocative charges. He says the company forged his resignation
- from Paravision in order to placate Arab boycotters, a plot
- engineered by ex-Nazi collaborators like Correze. Fiercely
- fighting the claims, L'Oreal does concede that its founder,
- Eugene Schueller, was an anti-Semitic fascist who hired Correze
- and other ultra-rightists. But that generation no longer runs
- L'Oreal. Correze, 80 and ailing, is unlikely to visit the U.S.
- even if he is never placed on the same watch list that bars
- Austria's Kurt Waldheim.
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