• Home
• /
• Hollywood
• /
• Entertainment

Hollywood mogul Steve Bing dies at 55

The producer reportedly committed suicide

Read more...

Hollywood producer Steve Bing, who financed Tom Hanks movie The Polar Express and fathered a child with actress Liz Hurley, has died aged 55, US media reported Monday.
TMZ said Bing had died after falling from the 27th story of a luxury apartment building in Los Angeles' Century City, citing anonymous law enforcement sources.
A Los Angeles police spokesman told AFP a male in his fifties had been pronounced dead at the same scene, without disclosing his identity. Both the victim's age and the location matched TMZ reports.

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end. Our time together was very happy and I'm posting these pictures because although we went through some tough times, it's the good, wonderful memories of a sweet, kind man that matter. In the past year we had become close again. We last spoke on our son's 18th birthday. This is devastating news and I thank everyone for their lovely messages ??
A post shared by Elizabeth Hurley (@elizabethhurley1) on Jun 23, 2020 at 3:03am PDT

As well as producing and financing movies such as Sylvester Stallone's action flick Get Carter and Martin Scorsese's music documentary Shine a Light, Bing co-wrote the 2003 comedy Kangaroo Jack.
He famously invested over $80 million in The Polar Express - around half the Christmas animation's budget. The 2004 movie, starring Hanks as a lead voice actor, would gross more than $300 million worldwide.
Bing was also a prominent real estate developer, philanthropist and political donor. He was a long-time friend and supporter to Bill Clinton, lending the former US president his private jet for a 2009 mission to North Korea to free two American journalists.
At the age of 18, Bing had inherited around $600 million from his grandfather, property tycoon Leo S Bing, after whom the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Bing Theatre is named.

 

 

 

View this post on Instagram

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news. I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends ??
A post shared by Damian Hurley (@damianhurley1) on Jun 23, 2020 at 3:43am PDT

Bing had two children - Damian, whose mother is Hurley, and Kira, born to professional tennis player Lisa Bonder. Reports in TMZ and The Wrap said Bing had been suffering from depression and had died by suicide. Bing's publicist did not immediately respond to AFP request for comment.