Posted on 06/01/2010 4:42:27 AM PDT by Puppage
The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel died early Monday after a night of drinking that ended in the seedy Manhattan apartment of a pub crawl acquaintance.
Andrew Koppel, a 40-year-old attorney with the New York City Housing Authority with a history of alcohol problems, was declared dead around 1:30 a.m., according to the New York Post. Police sources told the newspaper Koppel had stumbled two and a half hours earlier into the Washington Heights apartment of Russell Wimberly, a waiter he had met 12 hours earlier in a Hell's Kitchen bar.
A roommate of Wimberly, Belinda Caban, told the Post Koppel was extremely drunk and that they put him to bed, only to find him dead hours later. Wimberly, 32, said they met at a bar on 44th St. and Ninth Ave., striking up a conversation after each noticed the other wearing a similar straw hat.
"He said, 'Nice hat, man,'" Wimberly told the Post. "We got to talking and he started buying me drinks."
Wimberly said Koppel drank straight whiskey, and when he suggested bar-hopping around the city, he sipped from a pint bottle of Jameson as they walked.
"There was a lot of alcohol," Wimberly told the Post.
Koppel was the third of the "Nightline" anchor's four children and their only son. In 1993, he was convicted of punching a senate aide and ordered to undergo alcohol treatment. In 1990, he was in an alcohol-related fender-bender in Maryland.
My sympathies to the Koppel family.
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I agree with the six influences.
Along with prayer. PRAY for your kids, too.
Stormie Omartian has a book, “The Power of a Praying Parent”
more info,
http://www.stormieomartian.com/bookstore.html
I too am appalled at some of the comments here. You know there are ivory towers, but meeting someone who lives in one is always a little nauseating.
I was under that impression as well, but upon his death last week I read an biographical article on Art Linkletter. In it was mentioned that upon autopsy no LSD was found in Diane Linkletter's system.
My family was conservative and full of drunks on both sides.
My condolences to the Koppel family.
I seem to be watching TCM more and more these days.
There’s nothing else on. (Worth watching.)
Been there...seen that.
Raising kids is always a crapshoot.
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