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Sackler family

TheSackler familyis an American family who owned the pharmaceutical companyPurdue Pharmaand later foundedMundipharma.[1]Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, includingOxyContin.Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its role in theopioid epidemic in the United States.[2][3][4]They have been described as the "most evil family in America",[5][6][7][8]and "the worst drug dealers in history".[9][10]

The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentaryCrime of the CenturyonHBO,the bookEmpire of PainbyPatrick Radden Keefe,the 2021HuluminiseriesDopesick,the 2022Oscar-nominateddocumentaryAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed,and the 2023 Netflix mini-seriesPainkiller.

History

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Arthur,Mortimer,andRaymond Sackler,the three children ofJewishimmigrants fromGalicia,grew up inBrooklynin the 1930s. All three of the siblings went to medical school and worked together at theCreedmoor Psychiatric Centerin Queens. They were often cited as early pioneers in medication techniques which ended the common practice oflobotomies,and were also regarded as the first to fight for the racial integration of blood banks.[11]Arthur Sackler was widely regarded as the patriarch of the family. In 1952, the brothers bought a small pharmaceutical company, Purdue-Frederick.[4] Raymond and Mortimer ran Purdue, while Arthur, the oldest brother, became a pioneer in medical advertising. He devised campaigns appealing directly to doctors, and enlisted prominent physicians to endorse Purdue's products. As one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, he also donated the majority of his collections to museums around the world. After his death in 1987, his option on one third of Purdue-Frederick was sold by his estate to his two brothers who turned it into Purdue Pharma.

In 1916, researchersMartin FreundandEdmund Speyerfirst synthesised the opioidoxycodone,[12]which was subsequently marketed as theanalgesicEukodal byMerck & Co.;[13]a case of "eucodalism" was first described in 1919 and its symptoms were compared to those ofmorphine addiction.[14]In 1996,Purdue Pharmaintroduced OxyContin, a reformulated version of oxycodone in a slow-release form.

8-hour 2015 deposition ofRichard Sacklerabout his family's role in the opioid crisis in the United States.[15]

Heavily promoted,[16][17]OxyContin is a key drug in the emergence of theopioid epidemic.[18][19]Elizabeth Sackler,daughter of Arthur Sackler, claimed that her branch of the family did not participate in or benefit from the sales of narcotics. While some[20][21]have criticized Arthur Sackler for pioneering marketing techniques to promote non-opioids decades earlier, Professor Evan Gerstmann of Loyola Marymount University said inForbesmagazine, "It is an absurd inversion of logic to say that because Arthur Sackler pioneered direct marketing to physicians, he is responsible for the fraudulent misuse of that technique, which occurred many years after his death and from which he procured no financial gain."[22][23]In 2018, multiple members of the Raymond and Mortimer Sackler families,Richard Sackler,Theresa Sackler, Kathe Sackler, Jonathan Sackler, Mortimer Sackler, Beverly Sackler, David Sackler, and Ilene Sackler, were all named as defendants in suits filed by numerous states over their involvement in theopioid crisis.[24][25]

In 2012, a member of the Sackler family boughtStargroves,a manor house near Newbury in theUK,for more than its £15 million listing price; former owners at different times of the estate have beenMick JaggerandRod Stewart.[26][27] The family was first listed inForbeslist of America's Richest Families in 2015.[28]

The Sackler family is also the owner ofMundipharma,a lower profile pharma company that has significant operations in China.Bloomberg Newsreported in 2020 that the family had hired an investment bank to identify a potential buyer of the business.[29]The company could fetch as much as $3 to $5 billion.[1]

Genealogy

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  • Isaac Sackler and Sophie Greenberg
    • Arthur M. Sackler,(1913–1987),[30]married Else Finnich Jorgensen in 1934 and divorced,[31][16]married Marietta Lutze in 1949 and divorced, and Jillian Lesley Tully in 1981 until death
      • Marriage to Else Finnich Jorgensen:
      • Marriage to Marietta Lutze
        • Arthur Felix Sackler (b. 1950)
        • Denise Marika (b. 1955)
    • Mortimer Sackler(1916–2010) obtained British citizenship and renounced American citizenship.[32]Married Muriel Lazarus (1917–2009) and divorced,[33]married Gertraud (Gheri) Wimmer in 1969 and divorced,[34]and married Theresa Elizabeth Rowling (b. 1949) in 1980 until his death.
      • Marriage to Muriel Lazarus:
        • Ilene Sackler Lefcourt (b. 1946) (marriedGerald B. Lefcourtand divorced)
        • Kathe Sackler (b. 1948) (married Susan Shack Sackler)
        • Robert Mortimer Sackler (1951–1975)
      • Marriage to Gertrude Wimmer:
        • Mortimer A. Sackler (b. 1971) (married Jaqueline Sackler)
        • Samantha Sophia Sackler Hunt (b. 1968)[16]
      • Marriage to Theresa Rowling:
    • Raymond Sackler(1920–2017), married Beverly Feldman in 1944 until death[16]Beverly died in October 2019, aged 95[35]

Donations to various causes

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Further information:List of things named after the Sackler family

The Sackler family has donated to cultural institutions, including theMetropolitan Museum of Art,theAmerican Museum of Natural History,and theGuggenheim.[36][37][38]

The family has also donated to universities, includingHarvard University,Yale University,Cornell University,and theUniversity of Oxford,although the latter severed ties in 2023.[39][40][28][36]TheSackler Faculty of MedicineatTel Aviv Universityis named after Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler for their donations but the name was removed in June 2023. Similarly, the Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology atKing's College Londonwas named after Mortimer and Theresa Sackler.[41][42][43]

The Sackler family has previously donated to theChina International Culture Exchange Center(CICEC), afront organizationof China's principal civilian intelligence agency, theMinistry of State Security.[44][45]

The Sackler family contributed about $116,000 to theDemocratic Party of Connecticut.[46]

Reputation laundering

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Further information:Reputation laundering

The Sackler family name, as used in institutions which the family have donated to, saw increased scrutiny in the late 2010s over the family's association with OxyContin. David Crow, writing in theFinancial Times,described the family name as "tainted" (cf.Tainted donors).[47][48]In March 2019, theNational Portrait Galleryand theTategalleries announced that they would not accept further donations from the family. This came after the American photographerNan Goldinthreatened to withdraw a planned retrospective of her work in the National Portrait Gallery if the gallery accepted a £1 million donation from a Sackler fund.[49][50]In June 2019,NYU Langone Medical Centerannounced they will no longer be accepting donations from the Sacklers, and have since changed the name of the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences to theVilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.[51]Later in 2019, theAmerican Museum of Natural History,and theSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumandMetropolitan Museum of Artin New York, each announced they will not accept future donations from any Sacklers that were involved in Purdue Pharma.[52]

On July 1, 2019,Nan Goldin,an American photographer and the founder ofP.A.I.N.,[53]led a small group of protesters who unfurled a banner "Take down the Sackler name" against the backdrop of theLouvre's glass pyramid.[53][54][55][56][57] According toThe New York Times,the Louvre in Paris was the first major museum to "erase its public association" with the Sackler family name. On July 16, 2019, the museum had removed the plaque at the gallery entrance about Sacklers’ donations made to the museum. Throughout the gallery, grey tape covered signs such as Sackler Wing, including signage for the Louvre's Persian and Levantine artifacts collection, which was removed on July 8 or 9. Signage for the collection had identified it as the Sackler Wing of Oriental Antiquities since 1997.[58]

TheMetropolitan Museum of Artannounced it would remove the Sackler name from galleries and other locations within the museum in December 2021.[59]This was followed by theBodleian Library's"Sackler Library", which has since been renamed theBodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library.[60]

The family's philanthropy has been characterized asreputation launderingfrom profits acquired from the selling of opiates.[61][62]In 2022, the British Museum announced that it would rename the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Rooms and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Wing, as part of "development of the new masterplan", and that it "made this decision together through collaborative discussions" with the Sackler Foundation.[63]

Opioid lawsuits

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In 2019, a suit was brought in theSouthern District of New York,which included more than 500 counties, cities and Native American tribes. It named eight family members: Richard, Jonathan, Mortimer, Kathe, David, Beverly and Theresa Sackler as well as Ilene Sackler Lefcourt.[64]In addition, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Utah all brought suits against the family. On the federal level, the family faced an overall bundle of 1,600 cases.[65]

According to theNew Yorker,Purdue Pharma played a "special role" in the opioid crisis because the company "was the first to set out, in the nineteen-nineties, to persuade the American medical establishment that strong opioids should be much more widely prescribed—and that physicians’ longstanding fears about the addictive nature of such drugs were overblown."[66]

In late 2020, the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the role of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family in the opioid epidemic. "We don't agree on a lot on this committee, in a bipartisan way," the ranking member,James Comerof Kentucky said, "but I think our opinion of Purdue Pharma and the actions of your family...are sickening." The Sacklers were also accused of being "addicted to money." Of the Sacklers responses in the hearing, authorPatrick Radden Keefestated "They could produce a rehearsed simulacrum of human empathy" but were "impervious to any genuine moral epiphany."Jim Cooper,a congressman from Tennessee, stated to David Sackler: "Watching you testify makes my blood boil. I am not sure I am aware of any family in America that's more evil than yours." Of the Sacklers' wealth and Richard Sackler's in particular, Keefe states: "No one wanted his money."[67]

In March 2021,Purdue Pharmafiled a restructuring plan to dissolve itself and establish a new company dedicated to programs designed to combat the opioid crisis.[68]The proposal was for the Sackler family to pay an additional US$4.2 billion over the next nine years to resolve various civil claims[68]in exchange for immunity from criminal prosecutions. This "legal firewall" was opposed by 24 state attorneys general as well as the attorney general for Washington, D.C. "If the Sacklers are allowed to use bankruptcy to escape the consequences of their actions," said the state AGs who called the proposal legally unprecedented, "it would be a roadmap for other powerful bad actors."[69]

In a bankruptcy court filing on July 7, 2021, multiple states agreed to settle. Though Purdue admitted no wrongdoings, the Sacklers would agree never to produce opioids again and pay billions in damages toward a charitable fund.[70]Purdue Pharma was dissolved on September 1, 2021. The Sacklers agreed to pay $4.5 billion over nine years, with most of that money funding addiction treatment. The bankruptcy judgeRobert Drain[71]acknowledged that the Sacklers had moved money to offshore accounts to protect it from claims, and he said he wished the settlement had been higher.[72]

On December 16, 2021, U.S. District JudgeColleen McMahonruled that the bankruptcy judge did not have authority to give the Sacklers immunity in civil liability cases.[73]This ruling was overturned on appeal to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[74]This ruling was stayed in August 2023 by the U.S. Supreme Court pending oral argument in December 2023.[75]On June 27, 2024, in its decisionHarrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.,the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the settlement in a 5–4 decision.[76]On January 23, 2025, the Sackler family and Purdue settled the lawsuit they faced, in a $7.4bn deal with states and individuals. The Family agreed to pay $6.5bn over 15 years, while Purdue agreed on $900mn in settlements.[77]

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Further reading

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  • Patrick Radden Keefe (2021).Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty.Doubleday.ISBN978-0385545686.
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