Roy Den Hollander

Den Hollander graduated from the George Washington University Law School in 1985 and earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School in 1997.[8] He worked as an Attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service: Interpretative Division,[9] and as an associate in the late 80s with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, N.Y one of the most prestigious law firms in New York.[10][9]

He also worked as a private investigator for Kroll Associates in Russia.[4][11] In 1993, he addressed the Kremlin.[12] In March 2000, he married Angelina Shipilina, a woman he had met in Russia, but the two separated nine months later.[4][13] He would later accuse his former wife of having ties to Russian organized crime.[12]

He was also apparently a men's rights activist and self-described antifeminist who had previously been known for filing unsuccessful lawsuits against 'ladies night' promotions at bars and nightclubs, as well as suing Columbia University for offering women's studies classes.[7][14][15][16] His string of unsuccessful lawsuits earned him an appearance on The Colbert Report.[4] On August 20, 2008, he was an on-air guest of Fox News' Neil Cavuto.[17]

In 2015, he represented the plaintiffs of a gender-equity lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey challenging the constitutionality of the military's male-only draft. The lawsuit went before Judge Esther Salas, who sided against some of Den Hollander's arguments but allowed the case to proceed in court. He reportedly believed Salas was deliberately stalling the lawsuit for political reasons.[18]

In September 2016, documents were uploaded to Den Hollander's website with contact info for Russian lawyers who should be contacted 'if something happens to me.'[12]

In June 2019, he handed the draft case to a team of fellow lawyers, citing a terminal illness diagnosis that he later revealed to be melanoma.[18][19] In January 2020, he informed reporters that he was "painfully dying from metastasized cancer."[20]

Hollander has been described as a men's rights activist by various sources, and had been a part of the National Coalition for Men, before being kicked out, although he has himself denounced the movement, calling them 'wimps and whiners.'[21]

In various online writings running to thousands of pages, Hollander denounced women and specifically female judges.[22] In 2,028 pages posted online in 2019,[18] he espoused 'sexist, racist, and misogynistic' views,[18][19] and in one such document, disparaged Salas directly.[19] In another document, which outlined possible "solutions" to feminists and "political commies", he wrote, "Things begin to change when individual men start taking out those specific persons responsible for destroying their lives before committing suicide."[19]

He said that he was a volunteer for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and attacked President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Hillary Clinton.[18][22]

The day after the attack on Salas's family, Den Hollander was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Rockland,[6] near Liberty[7] in Sullivan County, upstate New York,[7][18] in an apparent suicide.[22] A list of judges, doctors, and other targets was found in a rental car chartered by Den Hollander on the road where his body was found. The list included Judge Salas and Mr. Angelucci as well as one oncologist who had treated Den Hollander. He had recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis.[33]

Law enforcement officials told The New York Times that the Walther semiautomatic pistol Den Hollander used was "of the same caliber as the weapon used in both the California shooting and the New Jersey shooting."[22]

Immediately after the discovery of Den Hollander's body, authorities identified him as the "primary subject" in the attack against Salas's family.[34] Two days later, authorities linked Den Hollander to Angelucci's killing.[22]

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