J. Michael Cline Dies In Fall From Midtown Manhattan Hotel Suite; Fandango Founder Was 64
deadline.comJ. Michael Cline, a founding investor and former chairman of online ticketing service Fandango, died Tuesday after falling from the window of a high-rise hotel in midtown Manhattan.
The New York Post had the news first. The NYPD confirmed to Deadline that a man of that name and age, 64, fell from the Kimberly Hotel at 145 East 50th.
Reports said he died by suicide and left a note. Cline was a managing partner at Accretive, which funds start-up companies, and the executive chairman of Juxtapose, which has a similar mission but specializes in building consumer-focused companies, according to social media and company websites.
Before he launched Accretive, Cline was a founding investor in Fandango in 2000 as a partner at General Atlantic. Early employees of the ticketing service whom Deadline spoke with today called him absolutely key in getting the new company off the ground.
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