Mortimer’s younger brother Raymond and eldest brother Arthur also held an interest in the firm that would become known as the drug giant Purdue Pharma.īobby grew up with older sisters Kathe and Ilene at a sprawling home in Great Neck, Long Island, but moved with his mother to the Upper East Side when he was 15 and his parents divorced. His father, Mortimer, a medical doctor from Brooklyn, had bought the small Manhattan company - known for its laxatives and ear wax-remover - in 1952. On the morning of July 5, 1975, a deeply troubled Robert Mortimer Sackler somehow made his way from his apartment on East 64th Street to his mother’s home on East 86th Street.īobby, as he was known to his family, had just turned 24 years old and was one of the heirs to the Sackler drug empire, a private, family-run business that was then on its way to becoming a multibillion dollar concern with its focus on developing and marketing powerful painkillers. Xanax, Adderall patients denied prescriptions due to opioid settlement: report Inside this granny’s ‘Breaking Bad’-style double life of ‘fentanyl-dealing’, hoodwinking her police union co-workersĭoctor burnout linked to overprescribing opioids, antibiotics: study 2-year-old Virginia boy revived with Narcan after overdose: cops
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