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Was China's Empress Wu the richest woman ever? Played by Fan Bingbing in Empress of China, she would have had US$16 trillion today – much more than L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
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Was China's Empress Wu the richest woman ever? Played by Fan Bingbing in Empress of China, she would have had US$16 trillion today – much more than L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers
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