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Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose Founder of weight-loss empire dead at 44 Herbalife founder Hughes dies in Calif. home Herbalife Lawsuit The coroner said Mr.. Along the way he earned a humongous personal fortune and acquired a real estate portfolio that would have impressed Donald Trump. Norine Plett. [144], Media related to Herbalife at Wikimedia Commons. Mrs. Hughes told investigators that her husband was drinking before he fell asleep on the evening of May 20 on the living room sofa of their $27 million oceanfront estate in Malibu. In February 1980, Mark R. Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight management product from the trunk of his car. Mark Hughes (19562000) founded Herbalife in 1980, with the goal of changing the nutritional habits of the world, one person at a time. Indeed, in several regulatory filings, Herbalife has said it was nearing the end of a three-year supply agreement with Global and that it was not sure if it would continue the relationship. [106][107], Based on information from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the New York Post reported on February 4, 2013, that Herbalife was subject to a pending probe from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). One close associate told of a failed scheme to spirit Hughes to a Swiss detox center so word of his addictions wouldnt spread. General counsel Robert Sandler said there were no sexual harassment complaints against Pair. In December, Hughes was reported to have paid about $25 million for his Malibu home. 2023 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved. filed on February 17, 2005, the plaintiff challenged "the marketing practices of certain Herbalife International independent distributors under various state laws". Ari Emanuel lets his AI alter ego open Endeavors earnings call. ), the subcommittee chairman, said that Herbalife and. LOS ANGELES, May 22 -- The death of Mark R. Hughes, the 44-year-old founder and president of the Herbalife International, over the weekend was apparently the result of natural causes. Marconi also told Hughes about Pairs multiple acts of sexual harassment at Herbalife, according to the lawsuit. [135][136], In April 2016, a documentary directed by Ted Braun, titled Betting on Zero, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The whole Ackman saga is fascinating enough to deserve its own dedicated article on Celebrity Net Worth, but for now we're gonna take a look at a different, equally insane story from the Herbalife chronology. Herbalife also instituted a fairly innovative program of customer-service chat rooms, post-sales service and sales follow-up. In February 1980, Hughes founded Herbalife International. [129] Herbalife has also sponsored the basketball club Herbalife Gran Canaria since 2012. "I got in trouble with the law. The business is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, with its corporate headquarters located in Los Angeles, California. Certainly the financial fortunes of both men have been closely linked. You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling [45] In the U.S., the company has manufacturing facilities in Lake Forest, California[46] and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. To settle his problems with the state, Hughes agreed to pay $850,000. Sign In. Back in December 2012, Ackman shorted $1 billion dollars worth of Herbalife's stock. However, his attorney, Hillel Chodos, said the lawsuit has no merit.. LOS ANGELES Herbalife founder Mark Hughes died accidentally, the result of a lethal combination of alcohol and an antidepressant, the Los Angeles County coroner has determined. [8], Hughes began his career in 1976 at Seyforth Laboratories selling diet products. The Absolutely Insane Life And Death Story Of Herbalife Founder Mark Hughes By Brian Warner on August 21, 2019 in Articles Entertainment If you follow financial news, you may have heard. The trustees LENT money to a man named Charles Dickens, who had absolutely no experience in real estate development, so he could buy the property from them with their money for $23.75 million. What Happened? I'm going to fuck you one way or the other.". At Herbalife Nutrition Foundation, we strive to grow our impact and continue carrying out Marks vision. Wife #4, Darcy LaPiere (the Hawaiian Tropic model), had previously been married to action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Two months after Hughes died, Herbalife fired another long-time Hughes associate, former executive vice president Michael E. Rosen, who was a counselor at the reform school attended by Hughes. He was born to a poor family, became a millionaire at age 30, and went broke when he was 33. Scott Carrier, of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, said final autopsy results found that Hughes, 44, had high levels of both alcohol and an antidepressant in his blood. Christopher Pair appointed president and CEO of the natural products company, the firm announces June 6. A total of $6million was to be paid out, with defendants not admitting guilt. Since Herbalife's Class B stock hit a 52-week high of $16.25 on Jan. 18, it has fallen 43 percent, to just over $9. Who can help student-athletes cash in? [31][32] In January 2019, Herbalife announced that it was replacing Goudis after learning of comments he had made before taking over as CEO that was contrary to the companys expense-related policies and business practices and inconsistent with the company's standards and culture. Former CEO Johnson subsequently took over the role on an interim basis. The death of Herbalife International founder Mark Hughes in May following a drinking binge has triggered a series of bizarre allegations about the key executives who helped the charismatic. Unfortunately for Alex, he wouldn'tbe able to touch the money until he turned 35, in the year 2027. MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Mark Reynolds Hughes, founder of the Herbalife empire of weight loss and nutritional products, has died at age 44, authorities said Sunday. Herbalife faces hurdles after founder's death. [11] On May 20, 2000, Mark Hughes died at age 44. LOS ANGELES The death of Herbalife International Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Hughes last month was an accident, said the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. [7], In March 1985, the California attorney general and the state Department of Health Services charged he and Herbalife with making "untrue or misleading" product claimsprimarily involving the caffeine content of some Herbalife productsand operating an "endless chain marketing scheme. He also had an elevated level of the drug Doxepin. [131] In addition to these team and player sponsorships, Turkish Women's Basketball Super League has been named 'Herbalife Nutrition Women's Basketball Super League' for three years starting the 2019-2020 regular season. Hughes said many times that he had been inspired to start his company after his mother (Jo Ann Hartman) died from taking diet pills. [7] According to the autopsy report, several empty vials of prescription drugs were found beside her bed, and her doctor told the coroner she "was known to over-ingest her prescription drugs. He budgeted $100 million for his dream. However, as a result of the negative publicity from the FDA lawsuit, the company posted a $3 million loss that year. [143] In the book, Wapner characterizes Ackman's decision to bet against Herbalife as dangerous, because it anticipated that the government would shut Herbalife down. Since Hughes death at age 44, lawsuits between the executives within his closest circle expose a tale of revenge, an executive with a shoplifting arrest and sexual harassment allegations. Richard Marconi, who created the first Herbalife products 20 years ago and until recently was Herbalifes biggest nutritional supplement supplier, filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Herbalife in Orange County Superior Court. On August 20, 2019, it was revealed that The Mountain of Beverly Hills had been sold at auction for $100,000. "[2][3] At 16, he was sent to CEDU High School, a private residential school for troubled youngsters in Running Springs, CA whose origins were associated with Synanon, a group founded in 1958 and later described as a cult. [79] Interestingly, race, genetics, age, and sex are all potential risk factors that may predispose individuals to Herbalife side effects[80], In December 2020, a 2019 paper analysing Herbalife's slimming products' association with one patient's fatal acute liver failure was retracted by the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology. LOS ANGELES - Mark Hughes, the controversial 44-year-old founder, chairman and chief executive of nutritional and diet products maker Herbalife International Inc., was found dead in his $25 million beachfront mansion, apparently of natural causes, officials said Monday. You may change your billing preferences at any time in the Customer Center or call [clarification needed] The products were sent to Bio-Medical Research Design LTD (B.R.D), to a private U.S. laboratory, and to Israel's Forensic research laboratory. [8] His first product was a protein shake designed to help people manage their weight. Hughes founded Herbalife in 1980, and the company hit $500 million in annual sales five years later. While the board approved the buyout offer, shareholders of the company filed a suit against the firm because they believed the share price they were offered was unfair. In May 2002, Herbalife founder, chairman, and chief executive officer Mark Reynold Hughes, was found dead at his $27 million oceanfront mansion in Malibu, California. You know, in case your guest has a guest. Darcy LaPier met Mark Hughes, founder of Herbalife, on a blind date. At the time, the California attorney general, John Van De Kamp, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying it was the "largest settlement ever attained from a health products company. Herbalife filed a suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court claiming that Rosen misused company funds when he hired a financial analyst who allegedly did little corporate work. But in the decade since the death, Mark's divorced . It has since become one of the world's largest distributors of Herbalife products through multi-level marketing, with sales of about $3.5 billion in 2007 and 2.1 million Independent Distributors. [38], In China, the company's manufacturing sites are located in Suzhou and Nanjing. [14] On December 16, 2004, the company had an initial public offering on the NYSE of 14.5 million common shares at $14 per share,[25] netting the owners $1.3billion. But in the months since his death the three executives have broken ranks, lacking the common goal of supporting Hughes, whose marketing savvy netted them millions of dollars in salaries, stock and profits. Today, the program helps to provide proper nutrition to over 229,000 children in 59 countries around the globe. [11], By 1985, the company was considered the fastest-growing private company in America by Inc. after its sales increased from $386 thousand to $423 million over the previous five years. After Hughes left the school he found work as a distributor for Seyforth Labs. Herbalife officials said Marconis claims were absurd. This shady sale set off a decades-long legal war between Alex Hughes' estate, the trustees and the developers. They are not leaning toward foul play at all.. LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Mark Hughes, the founder of Herbalife International, one of the world's leading distributors of herbal products, died of an accidental overdose after mixing alcohol with a "toxic level" of antidepressants, authorities said Friday. [132], In 2021, the company announced a partnership with the LA Galaxy on an augmented reality fan experience. Alex was only 8 in 2000 when his father, Herbalife founder Mark Hughes, died and left a $400 million trust for his only son to inherit at 35. EIN: 22-2306795. The panel attributed the cases to metabolic changes from overzealous and unsupervised dieting. [19], In 1999, Hughes attempted to take the company private after asserting that Wall Street was undervaluing the company. This vote of confidence helped increase Herbalife's stock price significantly. Helped by Hughes tearful tale of his rags-to-riches past and his mothers early death from addiction to diet pills, the Los Angeles-based marketer grew rapidly to its current $1 billion in annual sales and a work force of about 1,000 employees in Southern California. Now in 95 countries and achieving record retail sales of $7.5 billion in 2013 according to company statements. [5] The company announced in November 2016 that Chief Operating Officer Richard Goudis would take over the position of CEO in June 2017 and Johnson would transition to executive chairman. One of the trustees of Alex's fortune allegedly sold The Vineyard for just $23 million to a man who had no money and no experience in developing real estate. [49], In 2008, Herbalife was sued after laboratory tests indicated that levels of lead in several Herbalife products were in excess of California state law[50] and could lead to liver problems over an extended period of time. The coroner said Mr. Hughes died from a combination of alcohol and medication. [138][139], In 2016, a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment on multi-level marketing focused on Herbalife; it strongly condemned the company for its structure resembling a pyramid scheme and cited the FTC report, which implied the company had been operating illegitimately. (R-Del. Marconi has fought with Pair before, at one point telling Hughes to fire Pair during a company downturn in the mid-1980s. When the company went public on the NASDAQ in 1996, Mark's 26% stake was worth $250 million. The company's products are sold mainly through a network of more than 100,000 sales people, most of whom work part-time. The findings showed that the reason behind was the mixing of overdose of alcohol and an antidepressant Mark had been using. Mark Reynolds Hughes, the wealthy 44-year-old founder of Herbalife International Inc., was found dead in his Malibu beachfront mansion Sunday morning, apparently of natural causes, a sheriffs spokesman said. His blood alcohol level was 0.21 percent. Referring to a panel of nutrition experts who had criticized Herbalife in testimony the previous day, he asked the senators, "If they're such experts in weight loss, why were they so fat? [73] Herbalife stated they were cooperating fully with Spanish authorities,[74] and after investigation, the agency determined no action was required and removed the alert. Griffin dubbed his property "The Vineyard". [14] In 1986, Herbalife became a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ and rebranded itself as Herbalife International. [8] Marconi said the two made a strategic decision to split the business into a manufacturer and a marketing company. "[2], Hughes was 19 years old and still working for CEDU when his mother died in her apartment of an accidental drug overdose on April 27, 1975. As part of his divorce agreement from a year earlier, Mark's estate would also continue to pay ex-wife Suzan $10,000 a month in child support. We are delighted that you'd like to resume your subscription. [20] Reynolds was suspended,[20] but remained one of three trustees until 2013, when a judge in a separate lawsuit ordered the removal of all three for breaching the terms of the Trust by mismanaging the funds. [1] Rohn left college after one year [2] Whitney & Company and Golden Gate Capital, U.S. Justice Department investigation of bribery in China. medication. He was fined $1,762; sentenced to a day in jail, 12 months probation and court-ordered psychiatric counseling; and told to stay clear of Saks, according to court records. Existing Subscriber? Bloomberg News / August 11, 2000. And revenues pretty much exploded from that point on. Using his mother's legacy as a genesis, Mark founded Herbalife in 1980 when he was just 24 years old. Customer Service. We are being vilified because we wont give them all of our business, Sandler said. Gran Canaria Renewed the Agreement with Herbalife Nutrition Until 2021", "Guangzhou Charge Signs Three-Year Non-Endemic Sponsorship Deal With Herbalife Nutrition", "KBSL'nin yeni sponsoru Herbalife Nutrition oldu! During his life, he was married to four different beauty queens including a former Hawaiian Tropic model and a former Miss Petite USA. The FTC said in a press release about the settlement "it's virtually impossible to make money selling Herbalife products. In the mid-1980s, Hughes, who was 24 when he started his company, was sued by the Food and Drug Administration, the California attorney generals office, and the state Department of Health, over what they said were false health claims about Herbalife products and the various schemes used to market them. Jobs died in 2011. They also engendered Pairs bad will, according to the lawsuit. Ackman believes that Herbalife is nothing more than a gigantic pyramid scheme that preys predominantly on unwitting lower-income people, especially those in the Latino community. The company also announced that its shareholders had approved a two-for-one stock split. Rich L.A. homeowners are snapping them up, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam. Over the years, Hughes was in and out of the public eye, as much for legal and regulatory problems that plagued his company as for his taste for expensive mansions in Beverly Hills and Malibu. However, Hartmans autopsy found that she died of an overdose of Darvon, a narcotic painkiller. They said diversifying the companys supply chain was a prudent business decision. Herbalife. [88] The company filed an appeal on March 8, 2012. The cause of death was a bad mixture of alcohol and anti-depressants. [7], Regulators contended that the company was making medicinal claims. When Golden Youth went out of business, Hughes decided to start his own operation. He founded Herbalife, with its now famous Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How slogan, 20 years ago. He was just 44 years old and had been suffering for several months from insomnia and a recurring case of pneumonia. [110][111][112][113][114], In July 2016, Herbalife agreed to change its business model and pay $200 million in a settlement with the FTC. In addition to selling the product, sales-people were encouraged to sign up their friends, family and neighbors to become sales-people themselves. He forced the property into foreclosure to kick out Dickens and the other shady characters who by then had run up $200 million worth of debt with the trust. [81][82] According to a co-author of the paper, this was done after threats of legal action by a Delhi-based law firm. Although the company remains financially viable, interviews and the lawsuits paint a picture of rancor within the tribunal that served as close advisors to the late nutritional supplement czar. He soon developed a direct-marketing plan that incentivized local sales people to sell the products to their friends, family and neighbors. Oliver criticized Herbalife for its exploitation of Latino communities,[140] and overstatement of its products' health benefits. [18][19] In 2006, the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled to remove Reynolds from supervising a $35 million custodianship after finding that he violated multiple probate laws by ceding control to Klein and commingling Alex's personal assets with partnership accounts. The product debuted in 1980 and, as of 2015, was the company's best selling product accounting for nearly 30% of total sales. [141] One reviewer wrote that it appeared to be largely based on Betting on Zero, and caused no immediate change in Herbalife's stock prices. Heart doctors debate ethics of testing super-aspirin, Texas cattle quarantined after violation of mad-cow feed ban, Ceramist Adler adds furniture to his creations. Hughes was a juvenile delinquent who learned the art of sales while fund-raising for his reform school in the early 1970s. Hughes became the school's best salesman. [35], Herbalife Nutrition's products include weight-loss and protein shakes,[36] as well as protein bars, teas, aloes, vitamins, and sports hydration, energy, and personal care products. The Los Angeles City Council approved construction of the proposed $50-million home, which would have been bigger than the White House. His reasoning? TIMES STAFF WRITER. By 1982, just two years after launching the business from his trunk, Herbalife was generating over $2 million in annual revenues. Cessation of respiration would be the immediate cause of death, he said. [15] Suzan filed for divorce from Hughes in September 1997. When a series of congressional hearings questioning the efficacy of Herbalife products put the company into a tailspin in the mid-1980s, Hughes asked Marconi for help. And keep in mind, the property does not yet feature a house. [9], In 1976, after Seyforth Laboratories shut down, he joined Golden Youth, a direct-sales outfit that sells exercise equipment and weight-control products. Herbalife responded to the probe by saying it "welcomes the inquiry given the tremendous amount of misinformation in the marketplace, and will cooperate fully with the FTC. [1] His parents divorced in 1970, when Mark was 14, and his mother retained custody of Mark. [57], In a California class action suit (Minton v. Herbalife International, et al.) That's Not A Typo. Mark Reynolds Hughes was born on January 1st, 1956 in La Mirada, California. [17], Hughes' then 9-year-old son, Alexander "Alex" Hughes, was named sole beneficiary of his father's estate, estimated to be worth $400 million. Global has hired an investment banker to negotiate with bondholders to craft a restructuring. But as the companies grew, Hughes wound up with an interest in what became Global Health, collecting $43 million in a 1998 Marconi-led leveraged buyout of the manufacturer. Hughes eventually abandoned his attempt to buy the company and settled the suit with shareholders. [71] In 2009, an Israeli woman sued Herbalife International and Herbalife Israel, claiming that her liver damage resulted from the use of Herbalife products.[72]. [5][6] Herbalife agreed to "fundamentally restructure" its business, in the US but not worldwide, and pay a $200 million fine as part of a 2016 settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following these accusations.[7]. In January 2009, the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) reached the same conclusion. 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 406 Not sure what the main lesson iswith the story. The company's slogan "Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How", became a pop-culture catch phrase that was be plastered onto buttons, posters, billboards, flyers etc Herbalife conducted recruitment seminars that featured feel good weight-loss testimonials and a keynote address from Mr. Hughes. In February 1980, Mark R. Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight management product from the trunk of his car. However, in the press conference, Herbalife was declared not necessarily not pyramid scheme. The company has since named Chief Operating Officer Christopher Pair acting president and chief executive. [2][4][5][6] Part of Hughes' CEDU rehab required him to raise money by selling raffle tickets. [37] The company's original product is the Formula 1 protein shake, a soy-based meal-replacement shake. [30] On April 25, 2018, Herbalife announced that it had changed its name from Herbalife Ltd. to Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. [75] However, neither a 2005 American Association for the Study of the Liver position paper[76] on the management of acute liver failure nor a 2013 review in the New England Journal of Medicine[77] lists "overzealous dieting" among the recognized causes of acute liver failure. After reviewing cases implicating Herbalife products in Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Finland, France, Italy, Iceland and Portugal, the 12-member scientific panel issued a report concluding: "The analyses of these cases and information regarding their circumstances have not allowed us to establish a causal relationship" between liver anomalies and Herbalife's dietary supplements. [52], Herbalife Nutrition is a multi-level marketing company. The decline in Herbalife purchases from Global Health pushed the company into default last month after it failed to make a scheduled $12-million interest payment on $257.8 million of debt. 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