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Mick Jagger poses for photographers at the photo call for the movie ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ at the 76th edition of the Venice Movie Competition in Venice, Italy on Sept. 7, 2019.
Movie producer, movie financier, exact estate heir and main Democratic political donor Steve Bing has died. He used to be 55.
The Los Angeles County coroner acknowledged Bing died Monday at his build within the Century Metropolis fragment of Los Angeles. The coroner did no longer cite a space off and acknowledged an autopsy is pending. Without giving a title, the city Fireplace Department acknowledged it answered to a file of a 55-year-former man leaping from a constructing at the identical time and space.
Bing produced the 2000 Sylvester Stallone movie Score Carter and used to be a well-known investor within the 2004 Tom Hanks nice looking movie The Polar Categorical. He co-wrote the 2003 comedy Kangaroo Jack, a movie starring Anthony Anderson and Jerry O’Connell that used to be savaged by critics but made practically $90 million at the box space of enterprise.
He used to be also a producer on director Martin Scorsese’s 2008 Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Mild, and a co-producer with Mick Jagger on a drawing shut documentary on Jerry Lee Lewis.
“It’s so unhappy to listen to of Steve Bing’s passing,” Jagger acknowledged on social media. “He used to be this kind of form and beneficiant buddy and supported so many top and ideally suited causes. I will pass over him very powerful.”
Bing used to be the son of Peter Bing, a health care provider and philanthropist who truly educated in public health, and the grandson of Leo Bing, a Contemporary York exact estate developer who left him a full bunch of millions of bucks that he inherited when he became 18.
Within the 1980s, Steve Bing dropped out of his father’s alma mater, Stanford University, the build the elder Bing had donated $50 million, for a career in Hollywood. He received early credits as a co-author for the 1984 Chuck Norris Vietnam vet movie “Missing in Motion” and its two sequels. He wrote an episode of the sitcom “Married… with Childhood” and in 1994 wrote and directed his own shrimp movie starring Judd Nelson, “Every Breath.”
Bing donated millions to the Democratic Celebration and its candidates, including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi, to varied charities, and to campaigns for liberal-leaning ballotinitiatives in California.
“I loved Steve Bing very powerful,” President Bill Clinton tweeted. “He had a enormous coronary heart, and he used to be willing to dwell anything else he would possibly well also for the individuals and causes he believed in. I will pass over him and his enthusiasm more than I can articulate, and I am hoping he’s finally found peace.”
Bing used to be an L.A. socialite who frequently dated well-known females and used to be most continuously seen on red carpets, at enormous-dollar benefits and courtside at Lakers games.
In his 30s, he used to be inspiring about a pair of high-profile lawsuits centering on his doable paternity of adolescents that brought him media attention on all aspects of the Atlantic Ocean. A 2002 DNA test required by a British court docket showed that he used to be the father of the miniature one son of mannequin and actress Elizabeth Hurley, whom he had dated.
The identical year he sued movie magnate Kirk Krekorian, alleging Krekorian had employed a non-public detective to fight by arrangement of Bing’s trash to invent DNA for one other paternity test, this one to rep out whether Bing used to be the father of the daughter born to Krekorian’s then-wife, tennis participant Lisa Bonder. That lawsuit used to be settled out of court docket.
The 2 adolescents, Damian Hurley and Kira Kerkorian, own been named in fresh court docket fights over whether or not they’ll most seemingly be heirs within the belief space up by Bing’s father.
Family contributors of Steve Bing would possibly well no longer be reached.
