The furor surrounding Purdue Pharma, the Sackler–owned company behind Ox圜ontin, has steadily progressed, and two new nonfiction works punctuate the family’s current standing by telling the story of the Sacklers and the opioid epidemic in depth and at length. Last month, London’s Serpentine Galleries, already among the lengthy list to cut financial ties in the last few years, swapped out its old benefactors’ name. None of the organizations indicated they planned to give the money back or refuse it going forward.Ī museum or university dropping the Sackler name, or rejecting the family’s money, has since become a kind of institutional ritual. Just two years prior, in 2017, The New York Times, following a pair of articles in The New Yorker and Esquire that examined the relationship of some members of the Sackler family to Ox圜ontin, reached out to 21 cultural organizations that had taken donations from foundations run by members of the famed family of philanthropists. What is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, ‘I will sell out to you?’” (A spokesperson for LBV and Sackler told the tabloid at the time that Love’s account was “not accurate.” Sackler told WWD in 2020 that LBV never made Love a formal offer.)īy this time, the name Sackler had become a byword for the opioid crisis, and Page Six described Joss Sackler as a “scandal-hit Ox圜ontin heiress.” But the public connection between the family and the prescription drug had only recently become so flagrant. The night before, Courtney Love, responding to a reported offer of over $100,000 from Sackler’s camp to attend the show, had told Page Six, “I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet-my husband died on heroin. Several attendees, when asked if they had any misgivings about showing up in public for a Sackler venture, expressed varying mixtures of indifference and boredom.Īt least they understood the question.
The label, which shares a name with her private social club, had recently brought on the designer Elizabeth Kennedy, and a crowd of Sackler and Kennedy friends, members of LBV, and influencers gathered on the terrace of the Bowery Hotel in the East Village for the event. In September 2019, Joss Sackler showed her brand LBV’s new collection during New York Fashion Week.
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