Pallets of blue coolers stretched before him, each packed with boxes bearing the logo of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk: an Egyptian Apis bull, representing strength and fertility, balancing the sun between its horns. Until recently, Novo Nordisk was a sleepy century-old insulin manufacturer. But in the past two years, its diabetes treatment Ozempic has swept the world.
Vanity Fair obtained a separate shipping document that pointed to another party unnamed in the official transaction history. Listed as a joint “consignee” with Chadwick was a Manhattan company called Assure Global LLC, which VF traced to a businessman named Roman Vintfeld, who’d previously had run-ins with state prosecutors in Florida and New Jersey. In 2011, the attorney general of New Jersey accused one of Vintfeld’s companies, Industry Model and Talent Studios LLC, of committing fraud.