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The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma. [1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin.
Sackler was married to Beth Sackler but is now divorced; [2] they have three children. [9] They have a charitable foundation, the Richard and Beth Sackler Foundation. [ 18 ] Since 2013, he has lived outside Austin, Texas .
The brothers eventually grew estranged; when Arthur died in 1987, his complicated legacy was left to multiple heirs including his brothers, his wife, his ex-wife, and his four children. When the fight to split the assets devolved into acrimony, his children agreed to sell their shares in Purdue Frederick , a small drug manufacturer, to their ...
23 paź 2017 · In the eighties, Mortimer sued his ex-wife Gertraud, claiming that she had illegally taken possession of an apartment that he owned on Fifth Avenue and had loaned it out to a contingent of...
6 maj 2021 · Before Richard Sackler —father of David Sackler, who’s married to Joss—became president of Purdue Pharma, he played a central role in the company’s launch of OxyContin in 1995. In 2019 ...
24 paź 2024 · As news emerges Frederick Forsyth's wife Sandy has died after a years-long battle with opioids, revisit this feature from the May 2019 issue, when Mark Edmonds asked, can the Sackler dynasty survive the scandal?
Emperor Augustus wanted to encourage proper marriages between elite Romans with the main goal of producing more elite Roman children. When there is widespread adultery and divorce in the upper class, marriages often do not produce enough legitimate children to sustain an elite class [4].