Multimillionaire businesswoman Fritzi Benesch had a “perfect” relationship with her older daughter, Valli. The two regularly shared holidays, dinners and the opera.

But in the summer of 1999, 16 years after control of the San Francisco family clothing business had passed to her daughter, Benesch discovered that her husband, the company’s co-founder, had cheated on her.

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