Shacknai's Company Notches FDA Win

Spreckels homeowner Jonah Shacknai, whose extraordinarily troubled summer became the stuff of national news, scored a business victory Tuesday when his company received government approval for a new use of a cosmetic enhancer.

Medicis Pharmaceutical (NYSE:MRX) produces Restylane, a filler used to combat signs of aging, that the Food and Drug Administration now has approved for use in lip plumping.

The company's application received preliminary approval from a FDA panel in April. Shacknai is founder of the Scottsdale-based company, which reported $700 million in revenues last year.

“This marks another significant milestone for Restylane ...” Shacknai said in a statement Tuesday.

The company has been in the news for other reasons, including as BNET reported, a September settlement of a shareholder suit alleging that Medicis improperly handled stock to artificially boost sales. The company, according to the Arizona Republic, was not required to admit to any wrongdoing as part of the deal.

The victory comes on the heels of a devastating summer in which Shacknai lost his girlfriend and child within days of each other. Both incidents took place in his summer home, the oceanfront Spreckels mansion.

Max Shacknai, 6, was injured in a July 11 accident on the mansion's staircase. Two days later, investigators, summoned by Shacknai's brother, , nude and bound in the courtyard of the historic residence. 

Detectives later determined the boy – who died July 16 – tripped, causing an accidental fall. .

Shacknai, , has said he accepts the findings. The state refused his request.

, and has raised a number of questions , the whereabouts of the mansion's inhabitants and what evidence might be found on Zahau's electronic devices. .