So Joss Sackler and her staff send a personal invite to the "singer, tabloid-icon and fabled hell-raiser" Courtney Love.Īlong with the invite they offer a $100,000 enticement and the promise of a custom-made dress "embroidered with 24-karat gold thread." Hundreds of people are dying every day from overdoses.īut Joss Sackler, a designer and businesswoman married to David Sackler (who had left Purdue Pharma's board a year earlier) is busy in New York City hustling up a crowd for her spring fashion line.Ĭelebrities are understandably reluctant to lend their fame to a Sackler-branded gala. The scandal surrounding Ox圜ontin, Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers' role in America's devastating opioid epidemic is front-page news. Late in Patrick Radden Keefe's brutal, multigenerational treatment of the Sackler family, Empire of Pain, he offers a jarring anecdote. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
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