Roy Den Hollander (September 26, 1947 – July 20, 2020) was an American lawyer who gained notoriety as a suspected murderer after acting as an attorney in several unsuccessful sex discrimination suits on behalf of men.
[10] He worked as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service: Interpretative Division,[11] and as an associate in the late 1980s with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a white shoe law firm in New York City.
[14] He was also apparently a men's rights activist and self-described antifeminist who had previously been known for filing unsuccessful lawsuits against "ladies night" promotions at bars and nightclubs, as well as suing Columbia University for offering women's studies classes.
[14] In June 2019, he handed the draft case to a team of fellow lawyers, citing a terminal illness diagnosis that he later revealed to be melanoma.
[21] In another document, which outlined possible "solutions" to feminists and "political commies", he wrote, "Things begin to change when individual men start taking out those specific persons responsible for destroying their lives before committing suicide.
"[21] He said that he was a volunteer for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and attacked President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Hillary Clinton.
[25] The FBI is investigating the murder and possible links to the shooting of district judge Esther Salas's son and husband in New Jersey which occurred eight days later.
[6] The day after the attack on Salas's family, Den Hollander was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Rockland,[5] near Liberty[6] in Sullivan County, New York.
"[24] Immediately after the discovery of Den Hollander's body, authorities identified him as the "primary subject" in the attack against Salas's family.