Personal Life
In May 2003, the Pieper family was involved in an attack by a confused man who broke into his house in Aerdenhout, and stabbed his wife who made a full recovery. Pieper publicly blamed the Dutch police as the attacker was caught trespassing on the property, including with video proof, on previous occasions. The Dutch police refused to act until the attack almost killed Pieper's wife. Pieper is married and has four children with his current wife. The man who stabbed Pieper's wife was convicted and sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment in a closed judicial institute (Terbeschikkingstelling in the Dutch language). He then was granted a temporary leave in 2007. The man has since been reinstated into supervised custody. Pieper emigrated to Monaco in March 2008. The stated reason being that he was not informed, or was informed far too late, by the police or Ministry of Justice of this temporary leave of the attacker, although the government officials had promised to do so in writing.
In the summer of 2007, Pieper became one of the major stakeholders of the Amsterdam Basketball Club and was also working with the city of Amsterdam on a new youth project for integration and education focuses on sports. After Pieper emigrated in March 2008, Pieper no longer was involved with Amsterdam Basketball which closed its doors in April 2011 after it was unable to attract new sponsors to remain in the first league of basketball in the Netherlands. The club BC Apollo has since been revived to become the largest basketball club in the Netherlands with plans to return to the first (ere-) division of basketball after winning the championship in the second division.
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