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Article: An eccentric heir's wrestle with death.(John Du Pont charged with the murder of wrestler Dave Schultz)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- February 5, 1996
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If the category is Rich Loons, John Eleuthere du Pont, 57, qualifies as world class: very rich and very, very loony. The great-great-grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, who founded the giant chemical company that bears the family name, John du Pont inherited a fortune estimated in 1985 at about $46 million. Friends describe him as eceentric, but the word hardly does him justice. A well-known patron of U.S. amateur wrestling, du Pont is a gun fanatic who proudly owned an armored personnel carrier and a helicopter tricked out in military-style camouflage paint. According to local legend, he once drove two brand-new Lincoln Continentals into a pond-one after the other. Then ...
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Article: Police grab du Pont outside home Alleged killer ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
January 29, 1996 ;
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... ... Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz. Du Pont left the house just ... the past few years, du Pont had made his Foxcatcher ... those wrestlers was Dave Schultz, 36, who was shot ... the driveway of the du Pont guest house where he ...
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