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I think her daughter may have started impersonating her at some point but there was no way to prove it so they had to keep paying.
Further reading here : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud
Wow that was a fascinating rabbit hole. I think she was probably legit, but the fact that nobody else has broken 120 years is somewhat perplexing. The big gap between her and second place is statistically very unlikely, but there is also a lot of positive evidence mentioned in that article that's hard to refute.