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
You gotta ask if maybe he did a short sale on certain stock that didnt pan out.
#3? (Dobbs, Newhart)
Shannon Doherty......
Yup - 53, so sad.
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."
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?
Yes
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!!
Well, that escalated quickly. Lol
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