Mark Reynolds Hughes, American entrepreneur (born Jan. 1, 1956, Lynwood, Calif.—died May 21, 2000, Malibu, Calif.), was the founder in 1980 and president of the Los Angeles-based company Herbalife International, Inc., which offered weight-loss, nutritional, and personal-care products and had sales in 1999 of more than $950 million.Hughes, who took the company public in …
Mark Hughes, who has died aged 44, apparently of natural causes, was founder of the Herbalife International weight-loss and nutrition company. In February 1980, aged 24, Hughes founded Los Angeles-based Herbalife International. Herbalife Faces Struggle After Death of Founder Mark Hughes Bloomberg News / August 11, 2000 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. Prompted by complaints alleging that Herbalife product users had suffered illness and death, a U.S. Senate subcommittee called Hughes before a …
Following Mark Hughes’ death, his attorney, Conrad Klein, assumed control of all Hughes’ ventures including Herbalife, The Herbalife Family Foundation and The Mark Hughes Trust. The Court of Appeal for this district has reversed an order that an investment company oversee a trust that had $300 million in assets when the trustor and initial sole trustee, Herbalife founder Mark Hughes, died … Mark Reynolds Hughes (January 1, 1956 – May 21, 2000) was an American businessman who was the founder, chairman and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd. Hughes, who died in May from an apparently accidental overdose of … His mother at the time … But the husband who made Darcy seriously rich was the billionaire creator of Herbalife, Mark Hughes. Mark Hughes was born in 1956, in California. The same report said he was being treated for his drinking problem and … 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 … The death last month of Mark Hughes, the 44-year-old Herbalife International founder and chief executive, was an accident, according to a coroner's report. After months of legal wrangling, the 157-acre plot of land atop Tower Grove Drive in Beverly Hills sold to the Mark Hughes Trust, named after the founder of Herbalife. According to the coroner’s report, Mark Hughes had died after a four-day drinking binge. He began living with his mother after his parents divorced when he was 14. He soon earned a massive personal fortune. Los Angeles coroner reports that Mark Hughes, Herbalife International Inc chief executive, died after four-day drinking binge; Hughes, 44, was found dead May 21 (S) A Page in the History of Direct Sales: The Death of Herbalife’s Founder Mark Hughes. Alex was only 8 in 2000 when his father, Herbalife founder Mark Hughes, died and left a $400 million trust for his only son to inherit at 35.
Now in 95 countries and achieving record retail sales of $7.5 billion in 2013 according to company statements. More than a million Americans use Herbalife products, Hughes claims, and more than 700,000 of them have earned money selling them. His body was found at …
It has since become one of the world's largest distributors of Herbalife products through multi-level marketing, with sales of about $3.5 billion in 2007 and 2.1 million Independent Distributors. Mark Hughes founded Herbalife from the trunk of his car in 1980 at the age of 24. David Rakoff essay on Mark R Hughes, founder of Herbalife, hugely successful nutritional supplement corporation, whose unlikely death …