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Steve Bing

American businessman and film producer (–)

Stephen Leo Bing (March 31, – June 22, ) was an American businessman, film producer, investor, and philanthropist. He had business interests in property and construction and was the founder of Shangri-La Entertainment and Shangri-La Music.

Early life

Bing was born in New York City on March 31, [1][2] His parents were Helen, a nurse, and Peter Bing, a doctor in public health.[3][4] He was Jewish on his father's side and Croatian on his mother's.[5] Bing attended the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.[1] At the age of 18, he inherited an estimated $ million from his grandfather, Leo S.

Bing, a real estate developer who had made his fortune in New York in the s. The Los Angeles Business Journal's January publication of "The Lists " listed him in its "Wealthiest Angelenos" section of the magazine, which estimated his worth at $ million, coming in at No. After inheriting his fortune, Bing dropped out of Stanford University in his junior year to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.[6]

Entertainment industry

In , Bing launched his own production company, Shangri-La Entertainment.[6] He reportedly invested around $85 million to co-finance The Polar Express, an animated film featuring the voice of Tom Hanks, which earned $ million globally and was one of the year's box-office successes.[7][8] Bing was the financier of Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf[9] and the financier and producer of Shine a Light, a Rolling Stones concert film directed by Martin Scorsese.[2]

In addition to his career financing and producing movies, he co-wrote the film, Missing in Action II: The Beginning, and the story and screenplay for the film, Kangaroo Jack.[10] Bing also financed and produced the independently released Jerry Lee Lewis album Last Man Standing.[11]

Politics

Beginning with a $ contribution in to support Senator Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.

in his bid for re-election, Bing contributed more than $ million at the federal level to the Democratic Party and its candidates.[12]

The biggest checks were written in when he gave a total of $ million to the Democratic National Committee. He also gave to specific candidates, including Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and Dianne Feinstein.

Bing was reported to have given at least $ million during the election cycle in support of Proposition 87, a California initiative which sought to raise $4 billion in oil production taxes to help develop alternative fuels.[13] Bing also supported several key races in other parts of the country as Democrats fought to win back control of Congress.

They included Democratic challenger Bob Casey, Jr. in Pennsylvania, who unseated conservative GOP incumbent Senator Rick Santorum, and future United States senator Tammy Duckworth in Illinois, then a Democratic congressional hopeful and an Army National Guard major who lost her legs in Iraq, who went on to lose to State Senator Peter Roskam in that race.

Excluding Prop. 87 contributions, in California Bing donated $ million worth from on, according to the California secretary of state. He spent $ million in in a successful effort to defeat Prop. 77, a redistricting initiative sponsored by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.[14] Other beneficiaries of his political pursuits included: the California Democratic Party ($,); Governor Gray Davis ($,); and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose campaign received $ in [15]

In October , Bing pledged to match donations made to the NO[clarification needed] on Proposition 8 campaign from October 17 to October

On December 18, , the William J.

Clinton Foundation released a list of all contributors. It included Stephen L. Bing, who gave between US$10–25 million.[16]

On August 5, , a private aircraft owned by Bing and based at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Southern California, was utilized in the return of American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee who had spent 5 months of a year sentence in North Korea.[17] Former President Bill Clinton was instrumental in their return and accompanied the reporters back to the United States.

Bing reportedly covered the whole cost of the flight, estimated to be around $,[18]

Personal life

Lisa Bonder

In , Bing sued billionaire Kirk Kerkorian for invasion of privacy. Bing alleged that convicted criminal and private investigator Anthony Pellicano took Bing's dental floss out of his trash to collect his DNA.

At the time, Kerkorian was in a legal fight with his former wife Lisa Bonder, a former professional tennis player, over the amount of child support he would pay, with the billionaire reportedly suspecting Bing (a previous boyfriend) to be the biological father of Bonder's daughter Kira. After Bing was proven by DNA testing to be the father of Bonder's child, Bing and Kerkorian settled their dispute out of court.[19]

Elizabeth Hurley

Bing had a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, which resulted in a pregnancy.

Bing urged Hurley to have an abortion, but Hurley refused. Bing denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in [20] However, a DNA test established Bing as the child's father.[21] Hurley gave birth to Damian Charles Hurley on April 4, [22]Hugh Grant is Damian's godfather.[23]

Anthony Pellicano

The paternity of Bonder's daughter was revealed by Anthony Pellicano, a private investigator (and wiretapper) hired by Kerkorian's lawyer, who was also a "friend" to Bing.[24] According to an FBI summary, Pellicano sometimes played Hollywood clients against each other, at one point asking financier (and Bing friend) Ron Burkle for a $, to $, shakedown in order not to be investigated by Michael Ovitz, another Pellicano client.[25] In a twist to the case, The New York Times reported payments of $, by Bing to Pellicano between June and August

According to excerpts of recorded calls, Pellicano bragged to Kerkorian's lawyer in April and May that he was "working for" and "consulting for" Bing in matters related to Elizabeth Hurley and her son's disputed paternity, which was then in the news.

Helen bing biography husband: Twenty years ago, when Jerry Lee Lewis stumbled into hard times, Bing brought in doctors and accountants and straightened out his life. During his final week, Bing was speaking with a therapist twice a day. I remember he played at some club in Westwood when he was about 19 or The Bing name adorns a number of museums and concert halls in California.

Martin Singer, a lawyer for Bing, called Pellicano's statement regarding Hurley "an absolute lie." (Daily Mail reportedly paid a "substantial" settlement to Bing in after Pellicano's sworn statement that he had "never been engaged by Mr. Bing nor his attorney Mr. Martin Singer to investigate anyone on Mr. Bing's behalf, including Ms.

Hurley."[26]) Following two trials in in which Bing did not testify, Pellicano was convicted of 78 counts of wiretapping, racketeering, wire fraud, and conspiracy. Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered, with Terry N. Christensen, to forfeit $2 million.[27]

Philanthropy

In April , Bing committed to join The Giving Pledge, set up by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, willingly donating the majority of his wealth to charity.[28][29]

Death

Bing died by suicide on June 22, , at the age of 55 by jumping from his condominium on the 27th floor of the Ten Thousand building at Santa Monica Boulevard in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles.[1][30] He had been depressed about lack of human contact during the Coronavirus disease quarantine.[31]

With a past linked to drug addiction, including the recent loss of a close girlfriend due to overdose, a history of failed investments in the film industry and failed relationships with both lovers and his own estranged children, at the time of his death, he was worth $, in liquid assets having spent almost all of the $ million he had inherited.[32]

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