Monitoring desk
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\nA record held by a Frenchwoman as the world\u2019s longest living person could be fraudulent and involve an identity swap, Russian researchers have claimed in a report that has sparked widespread controversy.
\nJeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997, setting a record as the world\u2019s most long-lived person that is still unsurpassed.
\nThe elderly woman used to joke that God must have forgotten about her.
\nBut Russian mathematician Nikolai Zak is not convinced by her story.
\nIn collaboration with gerontologist Valery Novoselov, he spent months analysing biographies of Jeanne Calment as well as her interviews and photos, witness testimony and the public records of the city of Arles in southern France where she lived.
\n\u201cAnalysing all these materials led me to conclude that Jeanne Calment\u2019s daughter Yvonne assumed her mother\u2019s identity,\u201d Zak told Media.<\/p>\n
Zak, a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists at Moscow State University, recently published his report called \u201cJeanne Calment: the Secret of Longevity\u201d on ResearchGate, a portal connecting scientists around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monitoring desk Paris A record held by a Frenchwoman as the world\u2019s longest living person could be fraudulent and involve an identity swap, Russian researchers have claimed in a report that has sparked widespread controversy. Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997, setting a record as the world\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n