Steve Bing, Producer and Film Financier, Dies at 55

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View this post on InstagramA post shared by Zooey Deschanel (@zooeydeschanel) on Feb 19, 2013 at 10:17pm PSTSteve’s career highlights included producing beloved children’s film The Polar Express, hit comedy Get Carter and acclaimed Rolling Stones concert documentary Shine a Light. He was also a prolific political donor and counted Bill Clinton as a close friend.‘I love Steve very much’, Bill said via statement.

Filmmaker and philanthropist Steve Bing, who shared a son with actress Elizabeth Hurley, took his own life, a coroner in Los Angeles has said.

Get Carter and was a major investor in the 2004 Tom Hanks animated film The Polar Express.

Steve Bing, a philanthropist, producer, and film financier, died on Monday, June 22. Though initial reports claimed that the 55-year-old lept to his death from a Century City building, the exact cause of death was unconfirmed – until now. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled on June 23 that Steve died from “multiple blunt trauma,” and that the manner of his death was “suicide.”

LOS ANGELES -- Movie producer, film financier, real estate heir and major Democratic political donor Steve Bing has died. He was 55.

LOS ANGELES — Steve Bing, a producer, philanthropist and screenwriter, has died by suicide in Los Angeles. He was 55.

Tom Hanks-starring film The Polar Express and co-wrote 2003 comedy Kangaroo Jack, as well as founding Shangri-La Entertainment, an organisation with interests in property, construction, entertainment and music.Former US president Bill Clinton, who was friends with Bing, said on Twitter: “I loved Steve Bing very much. He had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in.I loved Steve Bing very much.

Steve Bing, the producer behind Get Carter, Rules Don't Apply and Rock the Kasbahand the writer of Kangaroo Jack, has died, TMZ has reported. Bing, also a real estate heir, political power player and philanthropist, was 55.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine , a film producer and the co-writer of Kangaroo Jack, has tragically passed away aged 55. According to TMZ, he died after falling from an apartment building.

Hollywood filmmaker Steve Bing, who shares a son with actress Elizabeth Hurley, has been found dead in Los Angeles, according to reports in the US.