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J. MICHAEL CLINE, FANDANGO FOUNDER DEAD AT 64 ...Leapt From Hotel, Left Suicide Note
TMZ ^

Posted on 07/18/2024 6:50:47 AM PDT by Red Badger

J. Michael Cline -- founder of movie ticketing app Fandango -- has died after leaping from a building in New York City ... TMZ has confirmed.

Law enforcement sources tell us ... the entrepreneur jumped from the 20th floor of The Kimberly Hotel in Manhattan, landing in a third-floor courtyard early Tuesday morning.

We're told he left a suicide note in the room that reads, "So sorry. I can’t explain the pain of f****** up this much. I love you all." Our sources say he then went out onto the balcony and jumped.

Cline started up Fandango way back in 2000 and also held roles with start-up funding firms Accretive and Juxtapose. Other companies he founded ... tech company R1 RCM, business insurance firm Insureon, and education solutions business Everspring.

Cline married his wife Pamela back in 1995, and the two share six children together. They bought their Palm Beach home back in late 2020 for just north of $20 million, according to the Palm Beach Daily News.

Cline was 64.

RIP


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bohemianrhapsody; fandango; jmichaelcline
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To: Red Badger

You gotta ask if maybe he did a short sale on certain stock that didnt pan out.


21 posted on 07/18/2024 1:41:22 PM PDT by Free Deplorable
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To: Red Badger

#3? (Dobbs, Newhart)


22 posted on 07/18/2024 4:00:50 PM PDT by Qiviut (Forced obedience to obvious lies is the essence of totalitarianism-the ultimate flex for psychopaths)
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To: Qiviut

Shannon Doherty......


23 posted on 07/18/2024 6:03:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yup - 53, so sad.


24 posted on 07/18/2024 9:48:33 PM PDT by Qiviut (Forced obedience to obvious lies is the essence of totalitarianism-the ultimate flex for psychopaths)
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To: Red Badger
not much to add except this UPI story on Msn which says, His death occurred days after gallbladder surgery. Maybe he was hopped up on painkillers and not thinking straight? Also read elsewhere his wife just bought $20M mansion in FL.
25 posted on 07/18/2024 11:05:17 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: dware
An article in the October 2003 issue of The New Yorker magazine (Title: 'Jumpers: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge') explained that the jumpers who had survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, a bridge with a 98% fatality rate, revealed an interesting commonality:

As soon as they jumped they regretted doing it.

Kevin Hines was 18 when he jumped in September, 2000. After he crossed the chord, he recalled, "My first thought was, 'What the hell did I just do? I don't want to die.'".

Ken Baldwin did it in August 1985. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, "I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable - except for having just jumped.".

Paul Alarab in March 1990. "I was praying for God to give me another chance."

26 posted on 07/19/2024 12:13:30 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

Paul Alarab in March 1990. “I was praying for God to give me another chance.”

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So was Paul successful on his second jump?


27 posted on 07/19/2024 12:20:59 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

Yes


28 posted on 07/19/2024 2:02:18 AM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

Wow - he DID jump again 15 years later and was successful on killing himself.

“As officers tried to talk him back to safety, he read a statement denouncing the [Iraq] war, then let go of the rope and fell 235 feet to his death.”

God answers prayer.
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And the Iraq War is over!!


29 posted on 07/19/2024 2:11:07 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

Well, that escalated quickly. Lol


30 posted on 07/19/2024 6:49:05 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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