The Du Pont Family

Babel  · Gustavo Bravetti ·

Meet the Du Pont Family: The Merchants of Death & The Forever Chemical Empire:

Auditing the Du Pont Dynasty, Their Bloodline Marriages, and What Lives in Your Bloodstream:

Earlier in this blog series, we opened the ledger on the Rockefellers (who monopolised oil and medicine) and the House of Sforza (who helped write the ancient playbook of papal banking and dynastic mergers).

Today, we are auditing the third pillar of the industrial elite, a family so secretive, so wealthy, and so deeply wired into the machinery of war, synthetic chemicals, food, and the modern AI grid that you literally cannot walk through a single room of your house without touching five things they invented: The Du Pont Dynasty.

For over 220 years, the du Pont family has operated as American royalty from their personal fiefdom in Delaware, the exact state where over 68% of all Fortune 500 companies register their corporate headquarters today to shield themselves from taxes and public scrutiny.

We don’t need rumours to expose the du Ponts. Pull the documented history straight from U.S. Senate investigations, Supreme Court anti trust rulings, marriage registries, and federal lawsuits, and look at who they married, what they own, and the massive elephant in the room.

1. From the French Royal Court to the “Merchants of Death”:

The story starts in France with Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), an economist and advisor to King Louis XVI who narrowly escaped the guillotine during the French Revolution and fled to America with his sons on New Year’s Day, 1800.

His son, Éleuthère Irénée (E.I.) du Pont, had trained directly under the chief chemist of the French Royal Gunpowder Administration. In 1802, backed by French capital and close ties to President Thomas Jefferson, E.I. du Pont set up a gunpowder mill on the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware.

Look at how the family fortune was built over the next century:

-Every time working class men were sent to slaughter each other, the War of 1812, the Mexican American War, the Crimean War (where they sold explosives to both Britain and Russia), the U.S. Civil War, and the Spanish American War, the du Pont bank accounts exploded.

-By the early 1900s, through the “Gunpowder Trade Association” (known as the Powder Trust), the du Ponts bought out or crushed over 100 rival companies until they controlled up to 90% of the American explosives market.

-Then came the jackpot: World War I. Between 1914 and 1918, DuPont supplied 40% of all the smokeless powder and explosives fired by the Allied forces, including hundreds of millions of pounds of propellant bought by the British government. DuPont’s stock multiplied nearly tenfold, and the company raked in over $250 million in pure war profits (billions in today’s money).

Their wartime profiteering was so staggering that in 1934, the U.S. Senate’s Nye Committee hauled the du Pont brothers under oath and officially branded them the “Merchants of Death.” Still no prison time; even with the branding “Merchants of Death”.

2. Keeping the Gold in the Bloodline: Cousin Marriages & Dynastic Mergers:

How did the du Ponts stop their massive war fortune from being diluted or taxed over nine generations?

Look at their marriage ledger. Just like the European royal houses and the Rothschilds, the 19th and early 20th century du Ponts practiced arranged cousin marriages to keep the shares of the company locked strictly inside the bloodline:

-Patriarch E.I. du Pont’s grandchildren routinely married their own first and second cousins. In fact, family historians documented at least seven major first cousin marriages in the 1800s alone, personally arranged by family head General Henry “The Boss” du Pont so that not a single share of DuPont stock left the family compound in Delaware.

-When the three cousins, Pierre S. du Pont, Alfred I. du Pont, and T. Coleman du Pont, staged a family buyout in 1902 to seize control of the empire, Alfred I. du Pont sparked a massive family war by divorcing his first wife (herself a distant cousin) to marry his second cousin, Mary Alicia Bradford.

And when the du Ponts did marry outside the family tree, look at the bloodlines they merged with:

-The Roosevelt Dynasty (1937): In what the newspapers called the “Wedding of the Century,” heiress Ethel du Pont married Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., the son of sitting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Even while her father and uncles were bankrolling the American Liberty League to fight FDR’s working class labour laws in public! (And after divorcing Ethel du Pont, who did FDR Jr. marry later? Felicia Schiff Warburg (another family we will cover), granddaughter of Federal Reserve architect Felix Warburg and great granddaughter of banker Jacob Schiff, showing you just how small the elite club really is).

The Crowninshield & Astor/Morgan Circles:

Louise Evelina du Pont married straight into the elite Boston Brahmin Crowninshield dynasty (shipping, Navy Secretaries, and media), while other branches intermarried with the Carpenters, Sharps, and Bayards (who held Delaware’s U.S. Senate seats like a family heirloom for five generations).

3. The 1933 “Business Plot,” General Motors, and the Manhattan Project:

After World War I left the du Ponts sitting on a mountain of cash, where did they put it?

1. Buying General Motors & Killing Public Transit:

Pierre S. du Pont poured roughly $50 million of wartime gunpowder profits into buying up 36% of General Motors (GM), installing himself as President of GM. Together with Standard Oil (the Rockefellers) and Firestone Tire, GM went on to buy up and rip out electric streetcar and tram systems across dozens of cities to force working class people into buying petrol cars and buses, while DuPont and Standard Oil teamed up to invent leaded petrol (tetraethyl lead), knowing full well that lead was a deadly neurotoxin to factory workers and the public.

2. The 1933 Wall Street Coup Attempt: In 1934, two time Medal of Honor winner Major General Smedley Butler testified under oath before Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists, tied directly to the Du Pont and J.P. Morgan networks and the DuPont funded American Liberty League, had approached him in the “Business Plot” to lead a 500,000 man private army to overthrow the U.S. government and install a corporate dictatorship, promising that weapons could be supplied on credit through DuPont controlled Remington Arms. Not a single billionaire was ever prosecuted.

Treason, but no one single prosecution; these people are above the law and nothing has ever changed. It’s got worse if anything as they have mastered statutory laws and treaties that work in their favour.

3. The Nuclear Grid: During World War II, it wasn’t just the government that built the atomic bomb; the U.S. military contracted DuPont to design, build, and operate the massive Hanford plutonium production complex and later the Savannah River Site, meaning the same family that started with black gunpowder in 1802 built the industrial plumbing for the nuclear age. A private institution as corrupt as the du Ponts had a hand in making the atomic bomb.

Let that sink in….

4. The Split-and-Hide Trick: What Do They Own Today?

Just like the Rockefellers split Standard Oil into 34 companies to hide their monopoly, the DuPont empire has spent the last decade splitting itself into a web of rebranded corporate giants so ordinary people have no idea they are still dealing with the same machine:

-Synthetic Everything: Over the 20th century, DuPont pivoted from gunpowder to petrochemicals, inventing Nylon, Rayon, Lycra, Neoprene, Lucite, Tyvek, Kevlar (bulletproof vests), Freon, and Teflon.

-The Seed & Food Monopoly (Corteva): In 2017, DuPont merged with Dow Chemical (the makers of Agent Orange and Napalm) in a $130 billion mega merger, before splitting into three massive corporations in 2019: DuPont, Dow, and Corteva Agriscience. Today, Corteva (built on DuPont Pioneer) is one of the largest genetic seed and agricultural chemical monopolies on Earth, patenting plant genes and selling pesticides to farmers worldwide.

-The 2025–2026 AI & Chip Spinoff (Qnity Electronics):

Just months ago, DuPont spun off its massive semiconductor and electronics materials arm into a brand new public company called Qnity Electronics, supplying the exact advanced silicon chemicals and thermal materials required to build the AI Data Centres and microchips wiring up our digital grid, while the du Pont family’s Longwood Foundation (run by 7th-generation heir Eleuthère I. du Pont) holds major stakes in Digital Realty Trust, one of the largest owners of AI Data Centres on the planet!

5. The Elephant in the Room: The Two Tier Justice System and Your Bloodstream:

Here is the ultimate truth about the du Pont dynasty that proves we live in a two tier system, one rule for the billionaire bloodlines, and another for the rest of us.

Look at two documented facts side by side:

First, the courtroom: In 2009, fourth generation heir Robert H. Richards IV (great-grandson of DuPont patriarch Irénée du Pont) pleaded guilty in a Delaware courtroom to raping his own three year old daughter.

Did he go to prison for life? He didn’t spend a single day behind bars. The Delaware Superior Court judge suspended his entire eight year prison sentence and gave him probation, writing in the official court ruling that the billionaire heir “will not fare well” in prison.

Most people will not fare well in prison, it’s not an environment that most people fare well. It was a good enough excuse for arguably the worst crime known to humanity.

When you listen to the elite class demanding more privatisation of our public services, you realise they aren’t living in the same reality as the rest of us. They use the public purse to protect their wealth and fund their lavish lifestyles, treating our hospitals, schools, and infrastructure as a private cash machine, all while insulating themselves from the very system they’re selling off.

Compare that to a working class person in Britain or America who gets thrown in a prison cell for non payment of council tax or a social media post.

Second, your own body: In the 1940s and 50s, DuPont began using a synthetic chemical called PFOA / PFAS (known as “Forever Chemicals” because they never break down in nature) to manufacture Teflon non stick pans, food packaging, waterproof clothing, and firefighting foam.

-Internal company documents uncovered in court proved that for over 50 years, DuPont’s own scientists knew these chemicals caused cancer, birth defects, and thyroid disease, and were secretly dumping thousands of tons of toxic sludge into rivers and drinking water.

-Even in July 2026, State Attorneys General are still filing massive lawsuits against DuPont, Chemours (their chemical spin off), and Corteva for contaminating public water supplies, while UN human rights experts have formally condemned them.

They always get condemned but nothing ever amounts to anything.

-And here is the best part: biomedical testing shows that DuPont’s synthetic PFAS “forever chemicals” are now inside the bloodstream of 98% to 99% of all human beings on Earth, including unborn babies in the womb.

Think about that circle:

They made billions selling gunpowder to blow up working class soldiers in every war since 1812.

They turned Delaware into the corporate tax haven capital of the Western world.

They poisoned the bloodstream of 99% of humanity with “forever chemicals” while hiding the medical data for fifty years.

And today, their heirs sit on the boards of tax exempt foundations owning the GMO seed companies that feed you and the AI Data Centre trusts that track you.

Let’s Open the Conversation:

1. The du Pont family went from supplying 40% of Allied explosives in WWI to owning major stakes in GMO seeds (Corteva), semiconductor chemicals (Qnity), and AI Data Centre real estate (Digital Realty Trust). Why do the same dynastic bloodlines always end up owning every new technology?

2. When DuPont’s internal scientists knew for decades that PFAS “forever chemicals” were poisoning drinking water and entering the blood of 99% of human beings on Earth, why did the company only ever have to pay civil fines out of their profits while not a single executive went to prison?

3. Look at the Delaware court ruling where a du Pont heir was spared prison for a horrific crime against a child because the judge ruled he “would not fare well in prison.” Does anything sum up the two-tier justice system more clearly than that?

Where are all commentators who expose these things? The politicians who talk global politics but never mention families like the du Ponts; in my opinion the du Ponts maybe the worst of the elitist elite. The skeletons they may have are not even worth thinking about.

Australians For Freedom