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National Enquirer founder’s heirs suing each other over ‘rampant-self dealing’: report

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Two children of Generoso Pope Jr., the founder of the infamous National Enquirer tabloid, are suing their brother, alleging “rampant self-dealing” that disgraces the name of the family patriarch, Italian-American media tycoon Generoso Pope Sr., according to The Daily Beast on Friday.

“In a 35-page civil complaint filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court, Marie-Thérèse and Ted Pope accuse David Pope, the well-connected president and CEO of the Generoso Pope Foundation, of ‘looting’ the nonprofit for personal gain as he iced the two of them out. David, according to the two, paid himself ‘far above the value of his services,’ put his wife and two sons on the foundation payroll ‘for little to no work,’ and managed to blow through at least $28 million of the foundation’s money in a little over a decade,” reported Justin Rohrlich. “He also used foundation funds to, among other things, get acting roles for his son, finance his kids’ football teams and cheerleading squads, and get all three children into college, the lawsuit states.”

In a statement to The Beast, Marie-Thérèse said that David “has destroyed the foundation and its ability to achieve my great-grandfather’s vision.”

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