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Part One: The Sackler Family: America's Deadliest Drug Dealers

Behind the Bastards

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The Sackler Family Tradition of Giving Huge Sums of Money to Museums

Arthur Sackler began the family tradition of donating huge sums of money to museums. He required the museum to sell him artifacts he was giving them for a very low price, what he'd paid originally in the 1920s when he'd acquired them. Arthur's third wife Gillian Sackler does call this allegation fake news. In general, the Sackler brothers seem to have been the kind of rich people I would not have gotten along with.

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