A heir to the du Pont family fortune and the richest U.S. man to stand trial for murder, John du Pont tried to buy justice.

Jan. 26, 1996: John E. du Pont, 57, shoots 36-year-old Olympic wrestler David L. Schultz to death in the driveway of a home on du Pont's Foxcatcher Farms estate in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Du ...

If you thought the billionaire played by Steve Carell in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher was eerie, please allow me to introduce you to the real John du Pont. A dangerous concoction of lonely and paranoid ...

John E. du Pont, who murdered Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz, was the great-great-grandson of the family's patriarch. The family built several mansions, including replicas of the Montpelier estate, ...

The majority of the Oscar buzz coming out of Cannes for Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher has been unsurprisingly centered around Steve Carrell’s transformative work as insane wrestling magnate John du Pont ...

To remain unspoiled by the ending of Foxcatcher, avoid the real-life story of chemical fortune heir and fanatical athletics booster John du Pont and the wrestling Schultz brothers. Why fanatical? Well ...

Almost 30 years ago, on a frigid, gray afternoon on Jan. 26, 1996, John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont family fortune and one of the wealthiest men in America, gunned down beloved Olympic gold ...