But he had also fallen into a deep depression. Along with his close friend Mikey Beaven, a former Green Beret, he was developing an app that would help prevent veterans’ suicides.
He met with homeless people and helped connect them to food and resources.
He took stabs at remaining engaged with the causes he cared about. Also weighing heavily on him: Bing was approaching the one-year anniversary of the death of his girlfriend. The pandemic had cut him off from his many friends and boisterous social life. Within his inner circle, he’d revealed that he had bipolar disorder he’d talked about suicide in the past. Long estranged from his family, he battled depression and drugs, his friends said. While left stunned and devastated by Bing’s death, some said they were not surprised. Intensely private, he died in a shockingly public manner. He took care of everyone around him and rarely asked anyone for help but wasn’t involved in his own children’s lives. He donated millions to Democrats and a slew of progressive causes yet did not seek recognition. Bing shunned fame yet was surrounded by celebrities and power brokers.
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He was brilliant and full of optimism, they say, but he was also enigmatic and a knot of contradictions. Yet, while the multimillionaire Bing lived a life of glamour and privilege, those who knew him say he was deeper and an eminently more complicated figure than his portrayal in sensational headlines. “He looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know what I’ll do in this world without my son.’”īing’s death shook the expansive and interconnected worlds of entertainment, Democratic politics and social activism in which he loomed large.
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