Members of this family made a series of tontines, or “mortality lotteries,” with fellow “Musketeer” Bill Frohlich. In the 1950s, a member of this family bribed the official Henry Welch while pioneering a form of direct marketing at the advertising firm William Douglas McAdams. A secretary with the pseudonym “Ann Hedonia” scoured internet forums for this family, as disclosed in a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. Laura Poitras’s documentary (*) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed recounts protests against this family by Nan Goldin’s P.A.I.N. Group. This family, who names an Asian art gallery in DC that’s adjacent to the Freer Gallery, paid $6 billion in a 2022 settlement that reorganized their company into the public-benefit corporation Knoa. For 10 points, a wing at the Met was formerly named after what family profited off the spread of OxyContin as owners of Purdue Pharma? ■END■
ANSWER: Sackler family [accept specific family members such as Arthur Sackler] (Patrick Radden Keefe’s book is Empire of Pain.)
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