The 55-year-old was known for films including ’Kangaroo Jack’ and ’The Polar Express’
By Brittany Martin | 22 June 2020
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE — Film producer and screenwriter Steve Bing has died following what authorities are describing as a “jump off” of the Century City apartment building known as Ten Thousand. The 55-year-old was known in Hollywood for his connection to films including Kangaroo Jack, Get Carter, and The Polar Express.
In 2000, Bing launched the film financing company Shangri-La Entertainment, and invested in the 2016 Warren Beatty flop Rules Don’t Apply alongside Ron Burkle, Terry Semel, Arnon Milchan’s New Regency, and James Packer’s and Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment. He was also an investor in Melrose vegan restaurant Crossroads Kitchen.
Bing was well known for contributing large sums to political causes. He donated $1 million to the DNC to help fund the 2000 convention in L.A., spent an estimated $50 million to campaign for an oil production tax in 2006, and gave at least $10 million to Bill Clinton’s foundation. Bing reportedly also paid for the plane used by Clinton to rescue journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea in 2009. Both Clinton and Bing were in the past reported to be part of a billionaire clique that also included Burkle. […]
If I were Ron Burkle, I’d hire 24/7 private security to watch my back.
Always rewarding to review just how diabolical the kakistocracy is by rereading Dave McGowan’s Laurel Canyon, the mostly true story. Pajama people think this is about “politics”. This is about pure evil and satanism masking as politics. The peasant of the middle ages was far wiser in this affair of good and evil than the modern brainwashed ” awoke” renaissance man. In fact the modern man is a facilitator of evil.
Well put Cam,McGowan is sadly missed.
SPLAT! First good thing Bing ever did. Nothing in his life ever became him like the leaving of it.