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The World’s Oldest Person Record Stood For Decades. Then Came a Russian Conspiracy Theory.

The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

Eli Rosenberg The Washington Post Jan 2019 Permalink