Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the title as the world’s oldest person, may have been a fraud, Russian researchers allege. Calment died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. However ...

The world’s most long-lived person, Jeanne Calment, is said to died at 122 years old and 164 days in 1997 — but researchers believe otherwise. Russian mathematician Nikolai Zak has challenged the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune. For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to ...

Jeanne Calment died in 1997 in the southern French town in which she was born, and her death drew a flurry of attention. At 122, an age that had been certified by the Guinness World Records as well as ...

For years, Jeanne Calment has reigned as the oldest documented person to have lived. She supposedly died in 1997 at age 122. But now Russian mathematician Nikolay Zak has exhumed that claim and ...

Madame Jeanne Calment is the longest living human in history. She was 122 years, 164 days old before she died in 1997. Many have wondered what Jeanne’s secret was, that allowed her to live such a long ...

FILE PHOTO: The World's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, 120 years old, is kissed by two young girls during a special ceremony in a retirement home in Arles, Southern France, February 21, 1995.

WASHINGTON - When she turned 120 years old in 1995, plucky Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment was asked what type of future she expected. "A very short one," she replied. But Calment lived two more years, ...

The French woman who died as the world’s oldest may have lied about her age by stealing her mother’s identity to tack on an extra 23 years, a mathematician claims in a blockbuster new report. Jeanne ...

Don’t tell the French that age is just a number. Russian researchers shockingly have claimed that Jeanne Calment, the oldest recorded person in history at 122 years and 164 days, was not the woman she ...