World’s Oldest Person Jeanne Calment Might Have Been a Fraud

World’s Oldest Person Jeanne Calment Might Have Been a Fraud
Jeanne Calment, the world's oldest woman according to the Guinness Book of Records celebrates her 119 birthday in France, Feb. 21, 1994. Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty Images
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Famous for holding the title as the world’s oldest person, the French woman Jeanne Calment, may have been a fraud, according to a new theory by Russian researchers.

Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.

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