Patrick Radden Keefe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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There was a lot of ambiguity about the circumstances of this.
Was it a suicide?
Was it an overdose?
Was it something else altogether?
And finally, there was an inquest, which I attended virtually and the brothers did as well.
And the inquest makes clear that
Verinder Sharma had, he had a drug problem.
He had overdosed actually on two occasions.
Once on the exact one year anniversary of Zach's death, he had an overdose and was checked into the hospital and then released.
And then he overdosed again a few weeks later and this time died.
He hasn't.
No, I mean, it's one of the more galling aspects of the story is that Akbar Shamji is kind of living his best life right now.
He's got various businesses.
He's working with his wife.
They have a fashion label which dresses members of the royal family, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Obama, these kind of famous women.
They make these fancy gowns for them.
And, you know, staying at five-star resorts in the Dominican Republic, going back and forth to Dubai.
His website's still up and running.
His website's still up and running.
Yeah, the families, they're all on Instagram.