Not long ago, the Sackler family name was etched on the world’s most prominent museums and buildings, from the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Harvard and the University of Oxford.

Members of the Sackler family own Purdue Pharma, the company that developed and marketed OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller that is blamed for thousands of overdose deaths. In recent years ...

It hasn’t been easy to get to the bottom of the Sackler story. From the beginning, the family hid its business dealings in a tangle of subsidiaries. When reporter Barry Meier blew open the story ...

The family behind one of the most addictive substances in the world, peddled to patients by their own doctors who downplayed their harmful effects, is not shielded from liability for the deaths of ...

The Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, is accused of fuelling the US's opioid crisis The billionaire Sackler family "funnelled" at least $1bn (£800m) to different banks, including accounts ...

You might never have heard of the Sackler family but you may well have enjoyed their money. The Anglo-American billionaire dynasty are prolific philanthropists and some of Britain's best-known art ...

The move is part of a tentative settlement of $12 billion to settle myriad lawsuits connected to the company’s marketing of opioid painkillers. (JTA) — The Sackler family-owned Purdue Pharma ...

The Sackler family said in a statement: "While we dispute the allegations that have been made about our family, we have embraced this path in order to help combat a serious and complex public ...

"I want to express my family's deep sadness about the opioid crisis," David Sackler, a member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, said at a congressional hearing. "OxyContin is a medicine that ...

In filings made as part of Purdue’s bankruptcy proceedings that were disclosed on Monday, the states said Purdue, backed by the wealthy Sackler family, contributed to a public health crisis that ...