Hughes often stated that the genesis of his product and program stemmed from the weight loss concerns of his mother Joanne whose premature death he attributed to an eating disorder and an unhealthy approach to weight loss. "[13], Hughes reached settlements with the regulatory agencies in 1986. Herbalife obviously disagrees, and has gone to great lengths to defend its honor in public statements and media interviews. [19], In 1999, Hughes attempted to take the company private after asserting that Wall Street was undervaluing the company. 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 salesman build one of the nations biggest dietary supplement sellers. Thus, causality levels were much lower than hitherto proposed. They said diversifying the companys supply chain was a prudent business decision. 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. Throughout the growth of the company, three key players--two from Hughes reform school days and one who knew how to manufacture weight-loss products--fought for his ear while helping to chart Herbalifes course. Who can help student-athletes cash in? The company was founded by Mark R. Hughes in 1980,[3] and it employs an estimated 9,900 people worldwide. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. On August 20, 2019, it was revealed that The Mountain of Beverly Hills had been sold at auction for $100,000. 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. Los Angeles, Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Herbalife International Inc.'s Web site still uses a video of Mark Hughes hawking weight- loss pills and nutritional supplements two months after the company's founder died of a prescription drug overdose. Some health experts doubted the efficacy of Herbalife products, saying that in some instances they relied too heavily on laxatives and caffeine. You know, in case your guest has a guest. By January of each year, sales leaders are required to requalify. Revenues were generated both by outside sales and through the companys network of 750,000 independent distributors, who bought Herbalife products in a multilevel pyramid, then resold them to individual consumers. Marconi said the two made a strategic decision to split the business into a manufacturer and a marketing company. Actually it's worse. Jennifer Friedlin May 22, 2000 12:22 PM EDT Updated from 10:57 a.m. EDT Herbalife International. Suzan once asked the trustees for $160,000 to rent a beach house in Malibu. [144], Media related to Herbalife at Wikimedia Commons. Herbalife said it paid the analyst $170,000 in salary and bonuses since 1997. [23]:15[24] In April 2003, Michael O. Johnson joined Herbalife as CEO following a 17-year career with The Walt Disney Company. In February 1980, aged 24, Hughes founded Los Angeles -based Herbalife International. [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. [12] Health agencies accused the company of violating labeling standards and using improper sales practices. To settle his problems with the state, Hughes agreed to pay $850,000. They divorced in 1984 and in the same year, he married Angela Mack, a Swedish former beauty queen. Darcy LaPier became Mr. Hughes's fourth wife on Feb. 14, 1999. The business is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, with its corporate headquarters located in Los Angeles, California. [2] In the ninth grade Hughes dropped out of school and began using drugs himself. 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 sheriff's. According to a court-ordered audit, in 2005, the value of 13 year old Alex Hughes' trust fund had grown to $400 million. [129] Herbalife has also sponsored the basketball club Herbalife Gran Canaria since 2012. Hughes in 1985 defended his controversial diet powders and pills during a hearing before a panel of U.S. senators. [20] Following his death, the company was led by Christopher Pair until October 2001. Scott Carrier, of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, said final . Web posted at: 2:32 a.m. EDT (0632 GMT). $1 billion. Mark Hughes (19562000) founded Herbalife in 1980, with the goal of changing the nutritional habits of the world, one person at a time. [88] The company filed an appeal on March 8, 2012. The rift between these individuals took a public twist Tuesday. Who was the founder of Herbalife? [14] In 1986, Herbalife became a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ and rebranded itself as Herbalife International. [59]:42, Hospitals in Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Iceland, Argentina, and the United States have reported liver damage in a number of patients who used Herbalife products. After Hughes left the school he found work as a distributor for Seyforth Labs. 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. Among the fallout has been the near financial ruin of Herbalifes top supplier, which has endangered the jobs of 1,000 workers in Orange County. Hughes founded Herbalife International, a weight-loss and nutritional products company, in Beverly Hills in 1980. [27], On May 7, 2014, the company announced that it entered into a deal with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to repurchase $266 million of its stock. Concerning Mischaracterization in Advertisement", "Herbalife's Claims Drawing Medical Fire, Government Probes", "History of Herbalife International, Inc. FundingUniverse", "Herbalife Lays Off 573, Blames Slowing Sales", "Nobel Prize Winner Didn't Disclose Herbalife Contract (Update1)", "Herbalife's Afterlife Challenge; Charismatic Leader Left an Image Problem and Other Issues", "Herbalife's Hughes Plans to Privatize In $500 Million, Leveraged Buyout", "But where are the distributors' yachts? Hughes said many times that he had been inspired to start his company after his mother (Jo Ann Hartman) died from taking diet pills. It explored the allegation from Bill Ackman that Herbalife was a pyramid scheme and personal stories of its distributors who lost their life savings. Before that, Hughes lived in a Beverly Hills mansion known as Grayhall, which he purchased in 1992 in a real estate trade valued at $20 million. He had already covered the purchase of a mansion for Suzan and Alex in Beverly Hills ,and would continue to pay for Alex's private schools and vacations. To settle his problems with the state, Hughes agreed to pay $850,000. She battled obesity and tension via amphetamines and sleeping pills. Whitney & Company and Golden Gate Capital. The product debuted in 1980 and, as of 2015, was the company's best selling product accounting for nearly 30% of total sales. The handsome hard-driving businessman, who sparred with regulators in the . Hughes' mother died of an accidental overdose of prescription diet pills when he was 18. However, Hartmans autopsy found that she died of an overdose of Darvon, a narcotic painkiller. Herbalife said Tuesday that Pairs record has since been expunged. [citation needed] In 1982, Herbalife received complaints from the Food and Drug Administration for claims made about certain products and the inclusion of mandrake, poke root, and food-grade linseed oil in another. [4], The company has been criticized for allegedly operating a "sophisticated pyramid scheme". Herbalife faces hurdles after founder's death. The company also announced that its shareholders had approved a two-for-one stock split. Hughes was frequently described as a charismatic leader and astute businessman who was intimately involved in company operations. June 17, 2000 Specifically, we're gonna take a look at the life story of Herbalife founder Mark Hughes. [142], The 2018 book When The Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle by Scott Wapner discusses Ackman's short of the company and his battle with Icahn. [38], In China, the company's manufacturing sites are located in Suzhou and Nanjing. Her death was the result of an accidental overdose of prescription diet pills and alcohol which (spoiler alert) would be eerily similar to how Mark himself would die many years later. At this point, the family survived on welfare payments with Hughes' mother suffering from "emotional problems." [109], In March 2014, the FTC opened an investigation into Herbalife in response to calls from consumer groups and members in both houses of Congress. filed on July 16, 2003, the plaintiffs alleged that some of Herbalife International's distributors used pre-recorded telephone messages and autodialers to contact prospective customers in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Hughes died after a 4-day drinking binge, apparently from an overdose of alcohol and the antidepressant drug doxepin. Marconi feared that if news of Hughes addiction leaked out, it would damage the pitchmans youthful and healthy image and hurt the company. Klein said that both Marconi and Hughes knew that the Herbalife contract with Global Health expired at the end of 2000. 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. But in the decade since the death, Mark's divorced . "[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. "[7], Prompted by complaints alleging that Herbalife product users had suffered illness and death, a U.S. Senate subcommittee called Hughes before a hearing in May. Oh, and the guest house has its own guest house. Herbalife . [83][84], Critics of the company's structure have contended that it has operated as a pyramid scheme. ", "Testifies at Stormy Senate Hearing: Herbalife President Calls Diet Powders, Pills Safe", "Beverly Hills' $1 Billion "Vineyard": The Bizarre Saga Behind L.A.'s Last Real Estate Trophy", "Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose", "Legal battle rages around America's richest teenager", "Herbalife Heir Can't Object to Settlement Agreement", "Judge Fires Custodian of Herbalife Heir's $40 Million", "Trustees Kicked From Herbalife Founder's $330M Estate", "C.A. His mother had always been concerned about her weight which is why she had been suckered into taking the dangerous diet pills that helped caused her death. 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Focusing on the past is one way the 20-year-old company is coping with . In 2013, two rival billionaires ended up taking the opposite side of Ackman's billion dollar bet. General counsel Robert Sandler said there were no sexual harassment complaints against Pair. He was born to a poor family, became a millionaire at age 30, and went broke when he was 33. Meanwhile, Suzan (the former Miss Petite USA) also claimed that one of the trustees sexually harassed her on a number of occasions. 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. coroner said Mr. Hughes died from a combination of alcohol and Not much is known about Mark's early life other than his family grew up in humble circumstances and that his mother, Jo Ann Hughes, died when he was 18. Because Merv found out that the largest estate in Los Angeles at the time was Aaron Spelling's 56,000 square foot house. 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 406 [108] The FTC stated that the wording it used in its response to the FOIA request was incorrect; the FTC could not confirm or deny an investigation into Herbalife. [33], In March 2020, John Agwunobi was named as its next chief executive. In addition to selling the product, sales-people were encouraged to sign up their friends, family and neighbors to become sales-people themselves. EIN: 22-2306795. Existing Subscriber? [2][4][5][6] Part of Hughes' CEDU rehab required him to raise money by selling raffle tickets. The executives, however, apparently couldnt agree on the plan, perhaps because they didnt trust each other to be alone with Hughes during such a sensitive period, Marconi said. His blood alcohol level was 0.21 percent. His reasoning? estate in late May. Hughes often stated that the genesis of his product and program stemmed from the weight loss concerns of his mother Joanne whose premature death he attributed to an eating disorder and an unhealthy approach to weight loss. According to the lawsuit, Hughes apparently relented to a passionate appeal by Pair, who met Hughes during his reform school days at the Cedu School in Running Springs, Calif. Herbalife has variously described Pair as a former advisor and intern at the institution. [45] The processed raw materials from the extraction facility are used at all of the company's branded manufacturing facilities as well as by its partners. Rosen did not respond to an interview request. Perhaps we'll just end with a reminder to nevermix alcohol and prescription drugs. [51] The company commissioned its own lab testing and found that those products did not contain high enough amounts of lead to require special labeling. medication. It took more than a decade since Mark's untimely death to resolve these legal battles. [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. As if that wasn't bad enough, the trustees also reportedly turned down a higher offer from a much more qualified buyer. So It Redesigned Its Iconic Can. Darcy was reportedly given an estimated $50 million worth of real estate and money from the estate, despite the fact that she had been married to Mark for less than a year. US EIN51-0523266. Pretty soon, thousands of sales people were selling Herbalife products door-to-door around the country. [125] In response, Herbalife committed $40 million to resolve the issues, and began negotiations with both the US Justice Department and SEC. So now you know the history of Mark Hughes and Herbalife. Mark Hughes, founder of Herbalife International Inc., had been on a four-day drinking binge just before his death in May, according to final autopsy . They were also accused of offering bribes to China Economic Net in order to influence their media coverage. 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. When asked during the hearing how he could be qualified to challenge leading medical experts, Hughes responded: "I defy anybody to be able to produce results as this company has. 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. [42][43] The facility produces botanical extracts, including teas, guarana, chamomile, broccoli, and bilberry, for use in many of the company's products. In December, Hughes was reported to have paid about $25 million for his Malibu home. Let's start from the beginning. Doxepin is sometimes prescribed for anxiety-induced sleeplessness, and it is thought Hughes was using it for that purpose, Carrier said. [93], On December 20, 2012, Bill Ackman (of Pershing Square Capital) presented a series of arguments outlining why his firm believed that Herbalife operated a "sophisticated pyramid scheme" and contended that its stock would hit zero. [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][excessive citations], In 2004, Israel's Health Minister began an investigation into Herbalife's products after four persons using Herbalife's products were found to have liver problems. [37] The company's original product is the Formula 1 protein shake, a soy-based meal-replacement shake. 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. Pair took control of the company soon after Hughes death and moved to shift business from Marconis Global Health to other suppliers. [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. 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. However, as a result of the negative publicity from the FDA lawsuit, the company posted a $3 million loss that year. At midnight, she went to sleep after he ''resisted her efforts'' to wake him. It must have been painful for Alex to know he couldn't touch the bulk of his fortune for a few decades, but to make matters worse, Alex and his mother Suzan became worried that the trustees were totally mismanaging the estate. [45] In the U.S., the company has manufacturing facilities in Lake Forest, California[46] and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The tangled web of litigation can cause some pretty funny alliances at times. Mark Reynolds Hughes was born on January 1st, 1956 in La Mirada, California. 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. In October 2022, previous CEO Michael O. Johnson was appointed as Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer following the departure of John Agwunobi. In July 2018, the Mountain was listed for sale. [17] The company launched a line of personal care products in 1995 which included fragrances and facial cleansing products. After all opinions and arguments were heard, on March 18, 2013, the judge finally came to a decision. The cause of death was a bad mixture of alcohol and anti-depressants. [60][61] In response, the Spanish Ministry of Health issued an alert asking for caution in consuming Herbalife products. Pair subsequently pleaded no contest to the 1998 theft of about $400 in merchandise. Last fall, dissatisfied with the price Herbalife shares were fetching on the stock market, Hughes announced he would by all the companys outstanding shares, then selling for $12 or lower, for $17 a share. He owned a $25 million beach front mansion in Malibu. You may change your billing preferences at any time in the Customer Center or call Cessation of respiration would be the immediate cause of death, he said. Subsequently, Bill Ackman lost $400-$500 million on his bet. In 1993, the company underwent a secondary offering of five million shares. [11] On May 20, 2000, Mark Hughes died at age 44. [22], Mark and Suzan established the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) in 1994, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving vulnerable children's lives through helping charity organizations meet the nutritional needs of children at risk, and providing funds to organizations that assist victims of natural disasters. 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. 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. [13] The company settled the suit for $850,000 without admitting wrongdoing. Along the way he earned a humongous personal fortune and acquired a real estate portfolio that would have impressed Donald Trump. [121], On September 27, 2019, the SEC announced that Herbalife has agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges of making false and misleading statements about its business model and operations in China between 2012 and 2018. 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. By the early 90s, Herbalife's annual revenues topped $1 billion. Unfortunately over the years more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed over The Vineyard (now known as the Mountain of Beverly Hills, and listed in 2018 for $1 billion). 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. Ouch. The Los Angeles City Council approved construction of the proposed $50-million home, which would have been bigger than the White House. After Hughes announced that he could not arrange the necessary financing, the companys shares dropped to below $4. "[7] Toxicological tests showed potentially lethal levels of the painkiller Darvon in her system. Hughes had built his company from an operation he ran out of his garage to a then $1.8 billion multi-level-marketing. "[7], During the hearing, Hughes acknowledged that his own formal education stopped at the 9th grade. 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. [38], Herbalife's products are produced at the company's five manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and China, as well as by third-party manufacturing partners. Mark Reynolds Hughes, Herbalife's founder and president, is among witnesses who have been subpoenaed. Instead of splitting the company, they agreed that Hughes would run the marketing end while Marconi would be the exclusive supplier, according to Marconis suit. 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. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}335126N 1181731W / 33.8572N 118.2919W / 33.8572; -118.2919, Herbalife Nutrition Ltd., also called Herbalife International, Inc. (with a U.S. subsidiary called Herbalife International of America) or simply Herbalife, is a global multi-level marketing (MLM) corporation that develops and sells dietary supplements. Pair was named acting president and CEO following the death of founder Mark Hughes (1"The Rose Sheet" May 29, p. 7). [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. [21] After the removal, Alex chose Fidelity Investments to oversee the fund a decision that was later reversed in a California Court of Appeal. [54] The settlement also required that distributors are only able to earn one-third of their rewards based on recruitment. A July 2013 peer-reviewed study published in the World Journal of Hepatology reexamined known cases of hepatotoxicity that had previously been linked to consumption of Herbalife products and concluded that using "the liver specific Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences scale, causality was probable in 1 case, unlikely and excluded in the other cases. A $1 Billion Plot Of Beverly Hills Dirt Just Hit The Market. The coroner found no indication of foul play or intentional overdose, he said. Coroner spokesman Scott Carrier said an autopsy revealed Hughes' blood-alcohol level at the time of his death was .21 percent, nearly three times the legally defined level of intoxication. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/12/business/binge-led-to-death-of-herbalife-founder.html. Herbalife relies on a worldwide network of more than 100,000 independent distributors, most of them working part time, to pitch the companys line of herbal and weight-loss products to neighbors, co-workers and relatives. By 1982, just two years after launching the business from his trunk, Herbalife was generating over $2 million in annual revenues. 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[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. Certainly the financial fortunes of both men have been closely linked. Mark R. Hughes Herbalife Nutrition/Founders Mark had one child, with wife #3 Suzan Schroder (the former Miss Petite USA). [34] Agwunobi departed Herbalife Nutrition in October 2022 and Michael O. Johnson was named Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer. They reached an agreement where Marconi would develop a series of products for Hughes, who would sell them through a new company called Herbalife. [9][10] As a result of the complaints, the company modified its product claims and reformulated the product. [137] Hilary Rosen, a Democratic lobbyist and an adviser to Herbalife, questioned Tribeca's credibility after claiming that the film was "bought and paid" for by Ackman "to make good on his stock bet". 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. [133] It also has a multi-year sponsorship with Jonathan Dos Santos of the LA Galaxy. Hughes was found dead in his Malibu mansion, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Hughes was found dead in his Malibu mansion May 21. [52], Herbalife Nutrition is a multi-level marketing company. It was the most expensive real estate transaction in Southern California history up to that point. A study of the cases funded by the Israeli Ministry of Health concluded that there was a causative relationship. 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. In the wake of its founder's death, Herbalife remains something of a . External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. 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