The Bitter Feud Tearing Apart ‘National Enquirer’ Tycoon’s Family

Two grandchildren of legendary Italian-American media mogul and New York City powerbroker Generoso Pope Sr.—the late father of National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope Jr.—are suing their own brother over alleged corruption and “rampant self-dealing” they claim “would have outraged” the family patriarch.

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 Marie-Thérèse, 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.

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.

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