One afternoon in March 2024, Spanish society gathered at a prestigious Barcelona business school to celebrate Isak Andic, an unassuming Turkish-born entrepreneur who used to sell embroidered blouses in a Barcelona market stand and went on to found the affordable fashion brand Mango, becoming a billionaire in the process, the fifth-richest man in Spain. Nine months later, Andic was dead. On December 14, 2024, Andic went for a hike on Montserrat, the mountain just outside Barcelona, and plunged to his death from a cliff some 300 feet high. The only person with him was his son, Jonathan, then 43 and the firstborn of his three children. Spain was stunned. Andic was a giant of industry, one of the country’s best-known fashion moguls. Initially, Catalonia’s police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, declared Andic’s death an accident. Then, in October 2025, Jonathan was identified in the press as a possible person of interest in an investigation. True crime aficionados are convinced of foul play in the mountains. And it doesn’t help that Andic’s son Jonathan was seen as a Kendall Roy failson; one who was not cut out to be Mango’s next CEO. But Andic's friends see the frenzy around the case and the slow-moving investigation through the lens of Spain's dislike for the rich. (The Andic family declined to comment.) “When you look at the police that have a small salary and you think about the judge that has a small salary, they can only think, ‘You know, if I was the heir maybe I would do it,’” says one prominent banker. Rachel Donadio travels to Barcelona to crack the case of the Spanish ‘Succession.’ Read it in full: