$1.75M settlement reached in August Busch IV case

Published October 30, 2012 7:17pm ET



ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV will pay $1.75 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed over his ex-girlfriend’s accidental drug overdose death under an agreement approved Tuesday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/W35qLq) reported that the money will go to the relatives of Adrienne Martin, who was 27 in 2010 when she died at Busch’s mansion near St. Louis. An autopsy concluded she overdosed on oxycodone and had a significant amount of cocaine in her system.

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