Roy Den Hollander sounded bitter and angry when he bumped into a former rugby teammate in December at a library in Manhattan. He said he was so sick from a rare cancer that he could die at any moment, wondering aloud if he should sue his doctor for malpractice.
Days before, Den Hollander, 72, had traveled by train to San Bernardino County, California, where he shot and killed a rival men’s rights lawyer at his home, authorities said. His beliefs swirled between the worlds of self-proclaimed anti-feminists and men’s rights activists. He ranted about what he perceived to be gender discrimination against men in family courts and other institutions, a focus of men’s rights activists, but also wrote blog posts calling for women to be killed.
“It really appeared to be a classical story of someone who felt scorned but then took it to a delusional, psychotic level in his response to it,” said Nicholas Mundy, the divorce lawyer who represented Den Hollander’s ex-wife. Den Hollander shot and killed Angelucci, 52, on July 11 at his home in San Bernardino County, authorities said.
Den Hollander grew up in Midland Park, New Jersey, a middle-class town about 25 miles northwest of Manhattan, and had a loathing for his mother, clinging to grudges against her. In his autobiography, he claimed that she told him she wished he had never been born and that she would not let him have girlfriend or learn to play a musical instrument.
His many degrees and former employers created a veneer of respectability. Later in life, he sometimes brokered introductions with other lawyers by citing the fact that he once worked as an associate at Cravath Swaine & Moore, one of the most prestigious law firms in New York. At the time of the divorce, she was 25 and he was 53, according to the records posted on the site. She did not respond to requests for comment.
After his divorce, Den Hollander’s legal crusade escalated, and he started filing a flurry of federal and state lawsuits. He often identified himself in court filings as an anti-feminist and a men’s rights lawyer, but some cases seemed to have no ideological purpose — like a lawsuit he filed in 2013 accusing the MTA of overcharging for MetroCards.
His unorthodox legal battles gained Den Hollander appearances on The Colbert Report and Fox News, but his notoriety alienated him from mainstream clients. In recent years, he took contract assignments helping big law firms review documents. One job paid $31 an hour.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Killed son of first Latina Federal Judge. Violent and Misogynistic. Think that's redundant.
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