Posted on 06/22/2020 6:26:17 PM PDT by Borges
Steve Bing, a producer, philanthropist and screenwriter, has died by suicide in Los Angeles. He was 55.
Police and the coroners office said a man fitting his age jumped from a Century City apartment building on Monday. Sources told TMZ he had been suffering from depression.
Bing, who inherited a fortune of some $600 million from his grandfather, L.A. real estate developer Leo S. Bing, also contributed millions of dollars to Democratic political causes.
In 2003, he co-wrote the action comedy Kangaroo Jack, and he also contributed to Missing in Action and wrote an episode of Married With Children.
Bing invested some $80 million in The Polar Express, the Tom Hanks-voiced 2004 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. He had executive producer credits on a number of films and music documentaries, including Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light, directed by Martin Scorsese, CSNY/Deja Vu, Rock the Kasbah, Get Carter, Rules Dont Apply, Girl Walks Into a Bar and a Jerry Lee Lewis documentary that is in the works.
His political contributions, in addition to the Democratic Party, have included Al Gore, Gavin Newsom, Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein.
Bing had relationships with Elizabeth Hurley, with whom he had a son, Damian, and with Kira Bonder, a former tennis player with whom he had a daughter, Kira. Both women filed paternity suits to compel Bing to disclose his parenthood, and both found that he was the father.
I thought he was one of those people with a charmed life.
I guess he was, mostly.
So was it Bing or wasn't it?
If the cops/coroner aren't stating for fact that it was him how can the first statement be factual and not just supposition.
REALLY bad reporting.
Afterthought...jumped or pushed?
BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was richyes, richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
one less socialist we will have to deal with
No. They arranged his will so the son and the daughter get zero. His sister has two children who will get money from the grandfather.
BTW Steve Bing was a big lib progressive. Figures.
Suicide is such a terrible way to die. It’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
court ruled for hurleys kid
Watch the Grandpa drag this out in court again now that his son has commuted suicide.
yeah, it probably isnt over
appeals etc
Steve Bing Democrat donor took a dive...
more money than most see in a life time.
no financial hardship
could live a life of ease
and ends up killing himself
I wonder how much money he pumped into getting Trump...
Bada Bing
‘Polar Distress’ Derails Bush-Hating Millionaire Bing
11/15/2004, 9:20:46 PM · by wagglebee · 84 replies · 4,562+ views
NewsMax ^ | 11/15/04 | Carl Limbacher
Anyone with any sense knows the makers of the unpleasant children’s movie “Polar Express” were foolish to unload it just days after the release of the excellent, can’t-miss animated hit “The Incredibles.” But some in Tinseltown seem eager to lose money. The good news about the failure of “Polar Express,” already being nicknamed “Polar Distress,” is that it’s hurting Bush-bashing fat cat Steve Bing, one of those left-wing tycoons who tried to buy the presidential election for John Kerry. Bing put up half the money for “Polar Distress” (the rest came from the Democrat media leviathan Time Warner) and squandered...
Wonder how many trips he had taken on the Lolita Express??
I think I met him at a party.
Too bad
Rest in Peace
Clinical depression doesn’t depend on your situation.
April 2012, Bing joined the Giving Pledge a program established by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to commit multi-millionaires and billionaires to donate most of their wealth to charity during their lifetimes.
Well he hung with the wrong crowd...
Sorry, but what is a burst flesh bag?
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