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b'Imagine growing up in a spectacular mansion, with access to the kind of wealth and connections most of us can only dream of. But although you\\u2019re surrounded by material riches, you\\u2019re in a social vacuum\\u2014eating alone in your bedroom every night, wandering the grounds of your family estate with only the wildlife as company. This was the life of John Du Pont, the youngest heir to the famously wealthy family who founded the DuPont chemical company. He grew up cut off from the kind of social warmth most of us take for granted. His solution to that was to immerse himself in the sport of Olympic style wrestling\\u2014and to gather some of the world\\u2019s greatest athletes in a little utopian community he named Foxcatcher Farms. His dream was to create the best team of wrestlers in the world. They lived on the property, trained on the property, became like family to each other\\u2026all under the watchful eye of their wealthy benefactor, John. To the athletes, it sounded like a dream come true. But they didn\\u2019t realize that John DuPont was already on a paranoid downward spiral that would leave everything he\\u2019d built in ruins\\u2014and take the life of one of wrestling\\u2019s most beloved champions.

Sources:
Time Magazine, 1996: "Blood on the Mat" by John Greenwald: https://time.com/3586290/blood-on-the-mat/
Documentary "Team Foxcatcher," 2016. Directed by John Greenhalgh
All That\'s Interesting, Mark Oliver: "John DuPont, Dave Schultz, and the True Story of \'Foxcatcher\'": https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-du-pont-dave-schultz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_du_Pont#:~:text=John%20Eleuth%C3%A8re%20du%20Pont%20(November,the%20murder%20of%20Dave%20Schultz.

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