Liz Hurley’s Hollywood financier ex Steve Bing, 55, jumps to his death from his 27th floor LA apartment after he became ‘depressed about the lack of human contact during coronavirus quarantine’
- Bing was the father of Elizabeth Hurley’s son Damian, who lives with his mother
- Scion of a wealthy real estate family, he spent his life developing films
- Bing was said to be depressed by isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic
- At the time of his death Bing was believed to be worth $590 million
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Steve Bing, filmmaker and philanthropist and father to Elizabeth Hurley’s son Damian, has died at the age of 55.
Bing, whose career in film producing began when he inherited $600 million from his real estate tycoon grandfather, is reported to have taken his own life.
Details about the Stanford University drop-out’s death were revealed by TMZ on Monday.
The producer and director died after jumping from the 27th floor of the Studio City neighborhood building where he lived.
Sources told the site that he’d been ‘depressed’ about being isolated during coronavirus, but it is unclear if that had anything to do with his suicide.
Elizabeth Hurley with Steve Bing in Los Angeles. After a brief relationship she had his child
Bing was best known for writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack.
As an investor, Bing was integral in bringing Tom Hanks’ Polar Express to life, contributing $100 million to the computer animated feature.
He also produced the Rolling Stones film directed by Martin Scorcese, Shine A Light.
In April 2012, Bing joined the Giving Pledge – a program established by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to commit multi-millionaires and billionaires to donate most of their wealth to charity during their lifetimes.
Bing is pictured with Martin Scorcese, who directed the Rolling Stones film Shine a Light, which Bing financed
He shares an 18-year-old son named Damian with actress Elizabeth Hurley.
Hurley met Bing in 2000, when she was just coming out of her 13-year relationship with Hugh Grant.
They were together for less than a year, but Hurley informed Bing after they separated that he was the father of her child.
Bing initially disputed Hurley’s claim he was the father but later a DNA test proved otherwise.
In the same year that Damian was born, 2001, Bing was faced with a paternity suit from a second woman, professional tennis player Lisa Bonder.
Bonder, who in 1984 was ranked 9th in the world in singles, was involved in a high-profile child support lawsuit with her ex-husband of 28 days, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
Kerkorian, 48 years older than Bonder, suspected that Bing – Bonder’s ex boyfriend – was the father of her daughter.
Kerkorian hired infamous private eye Anthony Pellicano to investigate, and Pellicano took used dental floss from Bing’s trashcan to do a DNA test confirming he was indeed the father.
Pellicano also wiretapped Bonder’s phone calls.
Pellicano subsequently was convicted on various charges, including wiretapping, received a 15-year prison sentence.
Dr Peter Bing, Damian’s grandfather, attempted to cut his ‘born out of wedlock’ grandson from a sizeable inheritance from his will.
However, in July 2019, an LA judge ruled that Damian and his half-sister Kira Kerkorian were indeed beneficiaries to Dr Bing’s trust.
Bing has also been romantically connected to Uma Thurman and Naomi Campbell.
- For confidential support call National Suicide Prevention Line, 1-800-273-8255