on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days.

barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in the country. together they gave away record amounts of money and made a very long list of enemies.

in this episode we go deep. the empire and the orphaned cousins who sued him. the money, the trusts, and the foundations he used like a piggy bank. the billion d ...