Mark R. Hughes is one of the most popular and richest American businessman who was born on January 1, 1956 in La Mirada, California, United States. Hughes is Born Hughes was born in La Mirada, California in 1956. He was the son born to Jack Reynolds and Jo Ann Hughes. The couple divorced in 1970 after Mark was 14 and his mother remained in custody of Mark.
In 1976, twenty-year-old Hughes started selling diet-related products in the name of Seyforth Laboratories, a multilevel marketer. He was one of the company’s top earners of the top 100. Following the collapse of Seyforth fell apart in 1979 Hughes then began selling fitness equipment and weight-control items to a company called Golden Youth, also a direct-sales company. While at Golden Youth in 1979 that Hughes became acquainted with Kathryn Whiting, the first of the four beauty pageant winners who he would wed at the beach. Whiting was an ex- “Miss Santa Monica,” was at the time a 21-year-old student at a college pursuing an education in medical science. As Golden Youth also went out of the business, Hughes decided to start his own company.
In February 1980, aged 24, Hughes founded Los Angeles-based Herbalife International. It has since become one of the world’s largest distributors of Herbalife products through multi-level marketing, with sales of about $3.5 billion in 2007 and 2.1 million Independent Distributors. Now in 95 countries and achieving record retail sales of $7.5 billion in 2013 according to company statements.
In March 1985, the California attorney general and the state Department of Health Services charged him and Herbalife with making “untrue or misleading” product claims—primarily involving the caffeine content of some Herbalife products—and operating an “endless chain marketing scheme.”
Hughes was just 19 and was still employed by CEDU in the year his mother passed away in her home of accidental overdose of a drug on the 27th of April in 1975. In the autopsy reports, a number of empty prescription bottles were found in her bed. Her doctor informed the coroner that they “was known to over-ingest her prescription drugs.” Tests for toxicology revealed potentially fatal amounts of painkiller Darvon in her body.
