Zillionaires
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Zillionaires who are no longer with us!
Richard Cousins, the 58-year-old chief executive of FTSE 100 company Compass Group, was killed alongside his sons Will and Edward, his fiancee Emma Bowden, her young daughter Heather and pilot Gareth Morgan, during the incident in Sydney on New Year’s Eve.
Two Jewish American families killed in Costa Rica plane crash
“The Bridgewater family lost Bruce Steinberg (a senior investor at Bridgewater and a wonderful man) and his family,”
Steinberg, his wife Irene, and their sons William, Zachary and Matthew were aboard the single-engine plane when it crashed in the northwestern province of Guanacaste shortly after takeoff, according to the New York Times.
A family of four from Tampa Bay, Florida, was among those killed, the rabbi at the family’s synagogue said.Mitchell Weiss, his wife, Leslie Weiss, and their two children, Hannah and Ari Weiss, all died in the crash.
Friend of Jewish Canadian billionaires “gobsmacked” by deaths
Toronto police suspect a billionaire pharmaceutical magnate may have killed his wife before taking his own life in a murder-suicide that has rocked Canada.
Golden Krust CEO killed himself over tax debt, fears of probe
The founder of the Golden Krust Jamaican beef patty empire, Lowell Hawthorne, 57, killed himself amid fears the feds were investigating him for evading millions of dollars in taxes. 2017
Australian Millionaire Falls To His Death While Parasailing in Thailand – Thursday, July 13, 2017
Roger John Hussey, 70, and his Thai wife, Budsabong Thongsangka, were 10 days into their vacation when tragedy struck.
Millionaire property developer William Baranos, in his 50s, killed at the wheel of 200mph Zonda supercar as it spins out of control and crashes into a fence
Adolf Merckle: what made this German billionaire commit suicide?
09 Jan 2009
Shortly before 5pm on Monday night, Adolf Merckle quietly put on his coat, told his wife “I have to go to the office for a while”, and drove to a railway embankment near his home, where he lay on the frozen tracks and waited patiently for death. Merckle was once ranked as one of the 100 richest men in the world, with an £8.5 billion personal fortune, but he had seen his wealth ebbing away as the global recession took hold, leaving him a “broken” man, according to his family.
Billionaire Killed in Small Plane Crash. A private plane erupted on takeoff leaving seven dead, including billionaire sports and media tycoon in Bedford, Mass.
Philadelphia Inquirer billionaire owner Lewis Katz among 7 dead in plane crash.
The world’s oldest billionaire’s 99th birthday celebration ended in tragedy Friday, when son Richard Rockefeller died in a plane crash on his way home. He was 64.
Chinese billionaire killed in helicopter crash as he tours newly-acquired French vineyard
Larry Hillblom founder of DHL killed, body not recovered.
Billionaire couple killed in plane crash off Jamaica’s coast
Larry Glazer and his wife, Jane, both died in a plane crash off the coast of Jamaica, according to several news reports.
Billionaire Heir John Walton Dies In Wyo. Plane Crash 2005
Texas billionaire Charles Wyly dies in car crash 2011
Texas billionaire and philanthropist Charles Wyly, whose family donated millions of dollars to Republican causes and Dallas arts projects, has died after a car accident in western Colorado, authorities said. He was 77.
Plane crash billionaire Steve Fossett was slammed into mountain by ‘deadly downdraft’
Five members of billionaire Bin Laden family killed in separate plane crashes
49-year old Dingxiang Loeng, a well-known and very flamboyant Chinese businessman, died this morning in his suite of the Island Shangri-La hotel during a reception he was holding for his birthday. According to some of the 217 witnesses of the tragedy, it is while opening a champagne bottle that the billionaire was hit violently in the temple by the cork, an accident that caused a fatal brain hemorrhage.
Coffee Billionaire Killed In Boating Accident
Coffee empire heir Joachim Herz, the German billionaire at the center of a family feud, died this past weekend in a tragic swimming accident.
According to multiple published reports, Herz died Saturday while swimming at Lake Raburn in Georgia after being struck by a boat. The collision, which was first reported late Wednesday, appears to have been an accident. Herz, 66, was a German citizen but spent much of his time at a nearby Atlanta home.
Billionaire’s son killed in police operation gone bad
A police operation turned tragic when the son of a billionaire was shot dead inside his house in Westlands, Nairobi.
Chinese Billionaire Killed by Poisoned Cat Meat Stew
North Face’s Douglas Tompkins killed in Chile kayak accident
Billionaire Who Killed 3 Children In DUI Crash Gets 10 Year Sentence, Mother Hits Out
In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, Marco Muzzo, right, arrives with family at the court house for his sentencing hearing in Newmarket, Ontario. A judge has sentenced Muzzo to 10 years in prison for killing three young children and their grandfather while driving drunk.
Robert Durst murder arrest: Billionaire transferred to secure mental health facility
Police in California also want to speak to the real estate scion about the death of a teenage girl
Robert Durst, 71, the eccentric New York property scion suspected of at least three killings, has been transferred to a mental health facility in Louisiana after being charged with the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman.
Swedish billionaire arrested in London for wife’s murder 2012
Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his American wife, a London inquest heard Friday. Police are waiting to question the 49-year-old recluse about his wife’s death after interviews were suspended so he could be treated for alcohol withdrawal.
Victoria Court founder Archie King, pilot killed in Batangas chopper crash
THE son of a Chinese-Filipino billionaire, who made his fortune by establishing a chain of hotels and motels in the country, died as his private chopper crashed in a forested area near Mt. Maculot in Barangay Pinagkaisahanin in Cuenca town, Batangas province on its way to Manila on Sunday.
Oklahoma Fracking Billionaire Killed, One Day After His Indictment 2016
In Oklahoma, the former CEO of Chesapeake Energy was killed, only one day after he was indicted on charges of conspiring to fix bids for oil and gas leases. Aubrey McClendon was killed Wednesday morning after his car crashed into an overpass wall at top speed and burst into flames. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department says McClendon “pretty much drove straight into the wall.” The former CEO had made billions off the controversial gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. He was accused of violating antitrust laws by orchestrating a scheme between two oil and gas companies not to bid against each other for leases in Oklahoma. Mar 03, 2016
Billionaire Killed By Stress of Madoff Money
Billionaire investor Jeffry Picower—who made billions off of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme—was found dead in his (expensive) pool Sunday. Murder??? Well, the coroner doesn’t want you to think so. But clearly, Madoff’s money has a deadly curse. Filed to: Curses
GOP Billionaire Says He Would Have Killed Baby Trump
Health care billionaire and GOP donor Mike Fernandez said Thursday that, had he been a doctor at the time, he would have killed President Donald Trump as a baby.
Trump is an “abortion of a human being … If I was the doctor and knew what that baby [Trump] would do, I’d have made sure it never would have seen the light of day,” Fernandez said.
China Executes Billionaire Who Ran ‘Mafia-Style’ Criminal Gang 2015
A Chinese billionaire who was building a mining empire in Australia was executed Monday after a court last year sentenced him to die for running a “mafia-style” gang that engaged in murder and extortion. Liu Han, 49, his brother Liu Wei, and three associates were executed on Monday.
Head of the French oil company Total killed. Mr. de Margerie, 63, the chief executive of the world’s fourth-biggest oil company and one of France’s biggest private employers, was killed in a crash after his aircraft hit a snowplow. 2014
The president of ConocoPhillips Alaska was killed and another person was feared dead after the two were swept away while snowmobiling on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, state police said. Jim Bowles, the head of the oil giant’s Alaska operations, was with a dozen snowmobilers in the Grandview wilderness area near Seward when an avalanche roared down a slope Saturday, burying him and Alan Gage.
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