Steve Bing, 55, Jumps from the 27th Floor...

of the Century City building in L.A., where he kept an apartment.  The rich heir to his family's real-estate fortunes invested heavily in Democratic politics, and filmmaking interests.* Bing was a good friend and top donor of former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, giving at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Bing and Bill Clinton were pals with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced and multiple-times-convicted pedophile, before his final conviction and confinement, and death at age 66. Epstein's death too is listed as a suspected suicide but was never confirmed, as correction officials fudged observation logs and lost the taped security-camera footage from the night of the death.

The internet is abuzz with link-clicking speculations on the Bing news:

"Close confidante of Bill Clinton & Ron Burkle jumps off a building to his death -- another figure in the Epstein nexus dead of an extraordinary suicide," one said and another wrote, "Steve Bing was one of Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton's buddies. Did he jump or was he pushed is the question."

Another posted, "Three of four of the men in the lede are dead: 'Epstein, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, film financier Steve Bing, and former president Bill Clinton...flying around on Epstein’s jet, dubbed the Lolita Express, or Burkle’s jet, dubbed Air Fuck One. Stay away from windows, Bill."

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*In 2000, Bing, a Harvard graduate, launched the film financing company Shangri-La Entertainment, and was also an investor in Melrose vegan restaurant Crossroads Kitchen. More recently he 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.

At the age of 18, while a student at Stanford, Bing inherited an estimated $600 million from his grandfather Leo S. Bing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The senior Bing was a powerful real estate developer, responsible for dozens of New York City apartments and other buildings, and gave his name to the theater at LACMA.

Bing has two children, son Damian Hurley with former partner Elizabeth Hurley, and daughter Kira Bonder, with former partner Lisa Bonder. In 2019, a Los Angeles judge ruled that both of Bing’s children are entitled to a sizable slice of their grandfather Dr. Peter Bing’s trust. A trustee had attempted to exclude them based on the fact that Bing wasn’t married to either child’s mother when the children were born.

Dr Bing filed court papers in Los Angeles County which asked for a judge to deem Ms Kerkorian Bing ineligible. That’s because the trust, which was established in 1980, “would not benefit any person bought out of wedlock unless that person had lived for a substantial period of time as a regular member of the household”, according to court documents, The Mirror reports.

According to The Mirror, Dr Bing’s affidavit claims he has never met Damian or Kira and that neither child was “raised by Stephen as part of his family”.

“l know that neither of them has lived with Stephen while a minor as a regular member of his household,” the affidavit states.  “To the best of my knowledge, Stephen has never met Damian, and Stephen only met Kira after she became an adult.  Regardless of whether, when and if Stephen met with or had any relationship with Damian or Kira while they are or were minor, because neither was raised by him during their formative years, l do not consider them my grandchildren.”

Bing accused his father and sister of “orchestrating a massive money-grab” designed to shunt more money to her children.

A source connected to Bing reportedly told TMZ that he was depressed about a lack of human contact during the COVID-19 quarantine.