Posted on 02/26/2018 10:59:29 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Son, 61, of billionaire Little Caesars pizza founder found dead surrounded by drugs in Michigan hotel room
The son of the billionaire Little Caesars founder and owner of both the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, has been found dead surrounded by drugs in a hotel room.
Ronald Ilitch, 61, was found dead on the floor of his Marriott Hotel room in Troy, Michigan, on Friday afternoon, MLive.com reports.
A female acquaintance had called 911 at about 2.12pm to report that Ilitch wasn't breathing, and when emergency crews arrived, they found him face-up on the floor.
A police report states that resuscitation efforts would have been futile.
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The most amazing thing I took from this story is that Little Caesar’s pizza made someone a billionaire. Selling crappy pizza for dirt cheap, who knew that could be so lucrative?
What was wrong with him?
Does the word addiction ring a bell ??
I knew drugs had to somehow be involved in the decision making process of naming the new Detroit arena “Little Caesar’s Arena”.
Suicide or murder? I guess it could have been accidental but there are a lot of people dying of accidental drug overdoses lately.
[Little Caesar’s pizza made someone a billionaire. Selling crappy pizza for dirt cheap, who knew that could be so lucrative?]
If someone could somehow bring the NY pizza making process and product to a national consumer base, they could easily double that value!
I can never really understand how somebody with so much opportunity can waste their life like that. Even if he was a loser, his father would have given him an easy store or two to maintain and he could have had a fairly easy life.
That’s why you stay away from drugs. Nobody knows if they have an addiction quality until they try them.
Percocet, Percocet!!
The founder, Ilitch is a (former) US Marine and he founded LCP based on battlefield strategies because his main competitor was lackadaisical.
The owner is a good guy. Recently two employees refused to serve a policeman and they were fired immediately and then the owner apologized and offered LE free pizzas.
http://www.leoaffairs.com/update-two-employees-refused-serve-police-officer-fired-little-caesars/
I grew up with 2 guys and there parents were loaded. Mega bucks. They called the parents by the 1st names.
Gave these guys everything. One totaled a 68 corvette, bought him another one a 69 totaled it.
Long story short both OD’d.
Same ole story
I dont care if he sold “crappy” pizzas because those pizzas field me up when I was hungry back at university.
and BTW, that was the son Morgana, not the founder. The founder Ilitch is a US Marine. A little respect for the son...
I hear these stories over and over and just shake my head.
Cardboard pizza.
Obviously smarter than me, I’m still just a grunt working for people who are rich but not that rich. And I’m not rich at all. I live in the northeast (outside Philly and close enough to NY) where really good pizza, arguably the best anywhere, is plentiful and easy to get and STILL people are going to Domino’s and Little Casar’s. Go figure.
Prolly those danged opioids again.
A large part of the problem is that instead of teaching coping skills, our society makes excuses for those who have problems and feeds them with drugs or leaves them out of meaningful, productive dialog with society.
It’s the dough. Bread doesnt test the same outside the tri state area.
I’m more on Chicago style.
On one of the food channels, I saw this Chicago based outfit that makes a huge pizza and they ship them a lot.
Maybe for my birthday.
The best pizza to me is my aunt Joan’s homemade.
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