August Busch IV sued over girlfriend’s death
Just as well August Busch IV resigned from AB-InBev’s board. The world’s media is not letting him out of their clutches now that the family of his 27-year-old girlfriend, who died last year of what authorities say was a drug overdose at the mansion of August Busch IV, is suing the Anheuser-Busch heir. According to U.S. media reports, Mr Busch is being accused of carelessness and negligence in the death that produced no criminal charges.
The wrongful-death lawsuit, filed at the end of March 2011 in St. Louis County on behalf of Adrienne Martin’s eight-year-old son, Blake Alexander Martin, seeks unspecified damages. The lead plaintiff, Kevin Martin, is the boy’s father and Adrienne Martin’s ex-husband, who has been caring for their child since Ms Martin’s death.
An investigation into Ms Martin’s death showed that she had cocaine and the prescription painkiller oxycodone in her system when she was found unresponsive in Mr Busch’s home shortly before Christmas last year. No charges were filed against Mr Busch.
Mr Busch, in a response to the lawsuit, denied that anyone has a legal or factual basis for seeking damages from him, and said he was not liable for his girlfriend’s death. His attorney, Art Margulis, told The Associated Press that an out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit was a probability.
