Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorSteve Bing, a producer, philanthropist and screenwriter, has died by suicide in Los Angeles. He was 55.Police and the coroner’s office said a man fitting his age jumped from a Century City apartment building on Monday.
Sources told TMZ he had been suffering from depression.Bing, who inherited a fortune of some $600 million from his grandfather, L.A.
real estate developer Leo S. Bing, also contributed millions of dollars to Democratic political causes.In 2003, he co-wrote the action comedy “Kangaroo Jack,” starring Anthony Anderson.
While he was still a high school student at Harvard-Westlake, he wrote the story for “Missing in Action” and later wrote an episode of “Married With Children.”Bing invested some $80.
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