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Richard Stephen Sackler (born March 10, 1945) [1] is an American businessman and physician who was the chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, a former company best known as the developer of OxyContin, whose role in the opioid epidemic in the United States became the subject of many lawsuits and fines, filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
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 .
David Sackler, once on the board of Purdue Pharma, ... Raymond's grandson and his wife bought a sprawling $7.4 million mansion near Boca Raton in ... David's father Richard ran Purdue Pharma ...
Madeleine Sackler is an American filmmaker and Sackler family heiress. She received an Emmy Award in 2015 [1] and was nominated for a second in 2020. [2] Her grandfather, Raymond, was one of the three Sackler brothers who created and owned Purdue Pharma, infamous for its role in the Opioid epidemic. [3]
In 2022, Sackler and his son David attended a virtual hearing as part of Purdue's ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, and were required to listen to a series of two dozen statements given by people ...
Richard Sackler was born in 1945 in Roslyn, New York, to Beverly and Raymond Sackler. Raymond Sackler, along with his brothers Arthur and Mortimer Sackler, acquired what became Purdue Pharma in 1952.
Mortimer Sackler was the second son of Jewish immigrants Isaac Sackler, born in what is now Ukraine, and Sophie (née Greenberg) Sackler from Poland. [4] His father was a grocer in Brooklyn, where Sackler attended Erasmus Hall High School. [4] He had two brothers; [5] Arthur, the oldest of the three, died in 1987, and Raymond, the youngest ...
(The Center Square) – Colorado is set to get $81 million if a settlement between a coalition of states, the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma is approved. Colorado’s portion would be part of a ...