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He pleaded guilty to a charge of rape in the fourth degree, paid a fine of $4,395 and promised to attend a high-end treatment center in Massachusetts.It’s true that the case might have been hard to prosecute.

Robert Richards, an heir to the DuPont company, was convicted of raping his daughter in 2009. The du Pont fortune dates back more than 200 years and is shared among an estimated 3,500 family members. Hours later, Richards walked away from Delaware Superior Court a free man. du Pont fled Europe in 1799 for America, where he founded the company that continues to make his descendants rich today. After Brown, she worked for Brain World Magazine and then interned at Forbes. The story was retold in the 2014 film Foxcatcher, which was produced by another heir, Megan Ellison, daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison.

So unlike many unfortunate people who come before me, you are lucky in that regard, and I hope you appreciate that.”The late chemical heir and convicted murderer John du Pont, wearing a warm-up suit from Team Foxcatcher, the private wrestling club he funded at his estate.“The du Pont family—huge family—they had their crazy people...and they just took care of it,” says the source close to the Richards case, who points out that, at the least, Richards must pay a price his forebears never would have had to.His lawyer, calling the 6-foot-4, roughly 300-pound Richards “a somewhat gentle person,” argued he “would not fare well” in jail. Since his eight-year probation ended in January 2017, he appears to have maintained a low profile.“The du Pont family, a huge family; they had their crazy people...and they just took care of it.”“If the prosecutor is looking at a defense lawyer who is not only very good but also knows how to throw a lot of wrenches into the machinery,” Finkelhor says, “and keep things going for a long time and take a lot of effort and time out of his or her staff's responsibilities to gain a conviction there,” it can eventually lead them to drop or lower charges out of exhaustion.But the aftermath of the suit carried on.

It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.

Her long form thesis investigated sexual assault allegations and alleged victims targeted by defamation suits. Instead, he mostly stayed in Delaware to receive psychiatric care and group counseling for sex offenders, according to a probation document from 2010.A collection of April 2014 headlines about the Richards case.“You have very strong family support.

Before she joined Forbes’ staff full time in June 2017, she covered rallies for AP after Trump’s inauguration.But after a year of treatment, Richards’ sex offender counselor thought the multimillionaire was making little progress and wasn’t disclosing enough of his sexual history to effectively work through his problems, according to the same probation report. E.I. The report also indicated that Richards promised that whatever he did to his son he would never do again.

Du Pont heir Robert Richards made national news in March 2014 when it came out that he had previously pled guilty to raping his three-year-old daughter. Their munificences have been and still are many-sided and magnitudinous.”Richards now lives in a multi-bedroom house hidden behind tall trees in Hockessin, Delaware, according to the Delaware sex offender registry.

In 2017, she got her master’s in journalism from Columbia, where she was a Osborn Elliott-National Magazine Awards scholar. That is, until 2014, after his marriage had ended, and his ex-wife, Tracy Richards, sued him in civil court for monetary damages caused by his crime.

Richards’ counselor recommended a polygraph examination, and the results suggested Richards may have raped his younger son, too.That’s what happened in this case, according to a source with a close understanding of the case who asked for anonymity out of fear of reprisal. In December 2015, DuPont and Dow Chemical announced that they would merge and split into three independent companies; the merger awaits the government's antitrust review. Richards’ story became the focal point of a media frenzy, one so significant that Judge Jurden reportedly received multiple threats and had to get a security detail. Born and raised in Istanbul, DenizOn the day of his sentencing, though he promised he would undergo treatment out of state at an upscale clinic affiliated with Harvard Medical School, his probation status didn’t allow him to do so.

Du Pont heir Robert Richards made national news in March 2014 when it came out that he had previously pled guilty to raping his three-year-old daughter.