London, Oct 8 (IANS) A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old - making her the world's oldest human being ever - has died, The Independent reported Monday. <\/p>\n
Antisa Khvichava claimed to have been born July 8, 1880, and had a Soviet-era passport and documentation to that effect, but her age was contested and never officially proven. <\/p>\n
She lived in Sachino village in northwest Georgia with her 42-year-old grandson and claimed to have retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85. <\/p>\n
Khvichava claimed to be just 10-years younger than Russia's first communist leader Vladimir Lenin and to have been born a year before the death of celebrated Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. <\/p>\n
She said she had 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren and reportedly attributed her longevity and good health to drinking a small amount of local brandy every day, according to the newspaper. <\/p>\n
Her original birth certificate is said to have been lost during the years of revolutions and civil wars that ravaged Georgia following the fall of the USSR. <\/p>\n
But local officials, friends, neighbours and descendants have all back up the claim she was 132 when she died, the daily said. <\/p>\n
The oldest living person at the moment is 116-year-old Besse Cooper from the state of Georgia in the US. Her birth can be officially proven to have been in August 1896. <\/p>\n
The oldest ever verified person was French woman Jeanne Calment, born in February 1875, who lived to 122 years and 164 days before dying in August 1997. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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