He was the local loon. We didn’t call him that, of course. He had buckets of money, and he was our neighbor, so we were polite. He was simply “odd.” He bought a replica police car, put on a uniform, ...

John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune whose benevolent support of Olympic athletes deteriorated into delusion and ended in the shooting death of a champion wrestler, died Thursday ...

What Du Pont did in World War I has been told chiefly by Congressional and journalistic witch hunters. Du Pont, in spite of its protests, was branded a “Merchant of Death.” This time E. I. du Pont de ...

In the 1980s, chemical heir John du Pont builds a state-of-the-art training center on his Foxcatcher estate in Newtown Square, Pa., and attracts world-class wrestlers like 1984 Olympic gold medalist ...

Bored with working at his family’s chemical company, Mr. du Pont entered politics and led an economic turnaround of his debt-ridden home state. By Robert D. McFadden Pete du Pont, the scion of one of ...

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 ...