ABSTRACT
News of Ivar Kreuger’s suicide in March 1932 attracted great interest in the United States and Europe. Earlier profiles in publications such as Time and the Saturday Evening Post had made Kreuger a household name. People naturally wondered why one of the richest and most influential men in the world had taken his own life. Rumors of blackmail or syphilis abounded. One “witness” claimed that a letter from a famous actress had been found crumpled in Kreuger’s hand.
