August Busch IV

Beer Book War! Updated Anheuser-Busch Biography Available as E-Edition

Last week Riverfront Times told you about Bitter Brew, the new biography of the Busch family that comes out this month from publisher HaperCollins. But Bitter Brew isn't the first book to examine St. Louis' first family of beer, nor is it the only book about the brewer to go on sale this fall. Under ... More >>

Busch Unbottled: Divulging secrets from the sudsy to the sordid, a new book pops the top off St. Louis' beer-brewing dynasty

Adrienne Martin's Family Settles With August Busch IV for $1.75M - Partial Money Grab?

August Busch IV -- scion of the Anheuseur Busch dynasty and former CEO of that company -- has agreed to pay $1.75 million to the family of Adrienne Martin, his girlfriend who OD'ed at his Huntleigh mansion back in December 2010. Most of the money ($1.35 million of it) will go to directly to Martin's ... More >>

Busch Family Member New Director of Endangered Wolf Center

​It seems there are two types of folks in the Busch family. The colorful ones whose dalliances, excesses and questionable behavior (Gussie and August IV come to mind) capture headlines. And everyone else. Virginia Busch falls squarely in the latter category. So obscure is this member of St. Louis' ... More >>

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Appellate Judges: Adrienne Martin's Parents Deserve Shot at Busch Settlement Money

The Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District released an opinion today declaring that George "Larry" Eby and Christine Trampler -- the parents of the late Adrienne Nicole Martin, former girlfriend of St. Louis beer scion August Busch IV -- have the right to join in on the wrongful death law ... More >>

August Busch IV Saga Tackled by BusinessWeek

August Busch IV gets the BusinessWeek treatment.​Cocaine! Oxycodone! A former Hooters waitress, dead in a darkened bedroom!A very bad beer baron!A BusinessWeek feature story that hit the Internets today, "Fall of the House of Busch," details the 2010 death of the girlfriend of August Busch IV, Adr ... More >>

$1.5 Million to Settle Wrongful-Death Suit? Busch IV Has Paid Bigger Bar Tabs

...and death, too!​The Post-Dispatch reports this morning that August Busch IV will pay $1.5 million to settle a wrongful-death suit brought on behalf of the son of his deceased girlfriend, Adrienne Martin. Martin died of a drug overdose at Busch IV's suburban St. Louis home in December. Prosecuto ... More >>

Frank Papa's Tim Krampe: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Katie Moulton profiles Frank Papa's Ristorante's Tim Krampe. Below is a Q&A with Krampe, followed by the recipe for his Chocolate Martini. Katie MoultonTim Krampe of Frank Papa's: His Ch ... More >>

August Busch IV Slapped With Wrongful Death Suit

August Busch IV​The Post-Dispatch reports that August Busch IV has been sued in St. Louis County Circuit Court over the death last December of his girlfriend, Adrienne Martin. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed today on behalf of Martin's eight-year-old son, Blake Alexander Martin. Blake's fathe ... More >>

August Busch IV to Leave AB Board

August A. Busch IV will be leaving the board of the company he used to run.​This just in: August Busch IV, whose girlfriend died after a drug overdose at his Huntleigh estate in December, is leaving the board of the company once known as Anheuser-Busch -- a company his family ran from the 1860s un ... More >>

10 Possible Sources of Illegal Drugs Found in Adrienne Martin

Prosecutors don't know, and August Busch IV isn't saying. Here then is Daily RFT's list of ten likely sources of the lethal amounts of cocaine and oxycodone (now known as a "Huntleigh Highball") found in Adrienne Martin's blood. And we're not talking about caffeine...​1. Gakkers, the God of Cocain ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Hair-Brained Reporting Offends Reader

Today's comment comes in response to my coverage of the police investigation and medical examination into the death of August Busch IV's girlfriend, Adrienne Martin. In my reporting I make mention -- among other things -- of the autopsy description of Martin's pubic hair, or lack there of. Reader "A ... More >>

Cocaine Straw Found Near Adrienne Martin; August Busch IV's Home Loaded and Messy

August Busch IV had straw with cocaine in bedroom and pill bottles with illegal drug residue in bathroom.​Update: At a news conference this afternoon, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch said that August Busch IV "refused" to cooperate with its investigation, and it could not file charges ag ... More >>

August Busch IV Girlfriend Adrienne Martin Died From Accidental Oxycodone Overdose

Adrienne Nicole Martin​St. Louis County Medical Examiner Mary Case has concluded her investigation of 27-year-old Adrienne Martin, found dead in December inside the Huntleigh mansion of August Busch IV. In a statement just released to the press, Case states: Saint Louis County's Office of the Medi ... More >>

Busch IV Saga: Cocaine and Oxycodone Gives Medical Examiner Choices in Cause of Death

Adrienne Martin: Coke was it. Oxycodone, too.​As the Post-Dispatch scooped Sunday, Adrienne Martin, the deceased g'friend of August Busch IV, was found to have cocaine and oxycodone (a.k.a. Ocycotin a.k.a. Rush Limbaugh's "little helper") in her system. But what's that mean for Busch IV? Hard to s ... More >>

Adrienne Martin Toxicology Report Just Days From Release

We should know within days what killed Adrienne Martin.​DailyRFT just got off the phone with Suzanne McCune, the forensic administrator for the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's office. McCune tells us that the toxicology report on August Busch IV's deceased girlfriend, Adrienne Martin, could be ... More >>

This Has Nothing to Do With August Busch IV

​While digging through the RFT toy chest last week, we stumbled on the most amazing thing: a vintage edition of a game called Bad Beer Baron: Bachelor Edition.The game pits a bevy of attractive women against each other in pursuit of a wealthy beer magnate. But, it warns, "many, many beautiful wome ... More >>

Readers press for further investigation into a death linked to August Busch IV and blow off Phyllis Schlafly altogether

Busch Family Mishaps: The Cocktail Pairings

​When we tumbled off the ol' king-size Posturpedic after yet another post-holiday bender and scanned the local headlines yesterday morn, our peepers opened wide at the sight of Deb Peterson's EXCLUSIVE interview with bad-boy beer baron August A. Busch IV. Having read said EXCLUSIVE -- and its ... More >>

August Busch IV Confession Offers More Heartbreak Than Answers

August Busch IV​Are we the only ones not sure of what to make of August Busch IV's confession today to the Post-Dispatch? Speaking publicly for the first time since his 27-year-old girlfriend, Adrienne Martin, was found dead in his home last month, Busch suggests that she may have died from Trazod ... More >>

Adrienne Martin: Photos of August Busch IV's Girlfriend Found Dead at His Mansion

Photos: OneModelPlace.comAdrienne Nicole Martin​Daily RFT was in holiday hibernation when the biggest society story of the year broke last Thursday. That's the news that the 27-year-old girlfriend of former Anhueser-Busch CEO, August Busch IV, was found dead in his Huntleigh mansion. Adrienne Nico ... More >>

The Women of August Busch IV (NSFW)

Adrienne Nicole Martin​While the tragic death of Adrienne Nicole Martin remains shrouded in mystery, her passing confirms one thing: St. Louis' most notorious bachelor is back on the prowl.August Busch IV, who served as CEO of Anheuser-Busch prior to its acquisition by InBev, reportedly had been d ... More >>

Book on Anheuser-Busch Takeover Paints Busch III and IV at Odds

​A new book on InBev's 2008 acquisition of Anheuser-Busch doesn't paint the most flattering picture of August Busch III and his son, August Busch IV. In Dethroning the King, author Julie MacIntosh (a reporter with the Financial Times) writes that Busch III's spending sprees as CEO of the St. Louis ... More >>

Heard the One About August Busch IV Getting Spanked in a Toledo Hotel Room?

Busch IV, circa the mid-1990s when the spanking episode allegedly took place.​We hadn't either, until we talked to Jeff Lamb. Lamb is a voice-over talent in Toledo and just released a self-published book recalling his days as a radio host in the '80s and '90s.One of the teasers for Lamb's book, "I ... More >>

Woman Discovers Glass Ceiling is Big Ol' Bottle of Budweiser

Not all ladies are so wild on about Budweiser.​Francine Katz thought her 2002 promotion to Vice President of Communications and Consumer Affairs at Anheuser-Busch was her ticket to untold riches as an executive of a major corporation. Instead, Katz claims she received compensation worth just a fr ... More >>

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Desperately Seeking DBB (Divorced Beer Baron)

August Busch IV It's been a while since Unreal posted our Entirely 100% Unauthorized August Busch IV Dating Contest. And, truth be told, we kind of forgot about the competition. That's because just one Daily RFT reader (Dena Vellone) initially responded to our quest to find a new life partner f ... More >>

Midwest Millionaires Get Busch!

Simon & SchusterIn case you missed it -- and Lord knows why you would -- Mark Ebner's literary masterpiece, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood, which came out last February, reports on the life and times of gangster Darnell Riley and ... More >>

Who Says Size Matters?

Craft brewers.And they are the subject of a sudsy documentary, Beer Wars, playing only one night -- TONIGHT -- in movie theaters across the country.Made by a woman who's allergic to alcohol (egads!), the documentary focuses on micro-brewers Rhonda Kallman of New Century Brewing and Sam Calagione of ... More >>

Who Says Size Matters?

Craft brewers do.And they are the subject of a sudsy documentary, Beer Wars, playing only one night -- TONIGHT -- in movie theaters across the country.Made by a woman who's allergic to alcohol (egads!), the documentary homes in on micro-brewers Rhonda Kallman of New Century Brewing and Sam Calagione ... More >>

The Entirely 100% Unauthorized August Busch IV Dating Contest!

Think you've got what it takes to mend August Busch IV's broken heart? Now's your chance to pounce!There's no sugar-coating this one: It has been a rough couple of months for August Busch IV. In November the beer scion watched helplessly as Belgian brewing behemoth InBev swooped in to buy the former ... More >>

Anheuser-Busch: Tales from the Crypt

This comes a couple weeks after the fact, but I thought it interesting enough for a retelling here. A friend of mine works for a moving company, and recently he told me about a job he had over the winter holidays cleaning out the executive suites at the Anhueser-Busch brewery.Until the InBev acquisi ... More >>

Can Steak-umm take Malcolm's mind off of losing Anheuser-Busch?

Financial Times: InBev Targets Anheuser-Busch

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