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.
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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