US billionaire killed in high-speed race car crash

US billionaire killed in high-speed race car crash
James Crown, a US billionaire businessman who held a number of management roles together with board member of JPMorgan Chase, died yesterday in a racing accident in Colorado.
Crown, who turned 70 the day he was killed, died within the single-vehicle crash after colliding with an impression barrier at a Colorado race observe, The Colorado Sun reported.

Among his many roles, Crown was chairman and chief govt of his household business, the funding agency Henry Crown and Company.

Jim Crown died in a racing accident.
The coroner stated James Crown suffered a number of blunt drive trauma within the crash (Jared Siskin / Patrick McMullan / Getty Images)

In addition to serving on the JPMorgan board, he was additionally a board director at General Dynamics.

Crown had served on JPMorgan’s board because the early Nineteen Nineties.

“The Crown family is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Jim Crown,” a household consultant stated in an announcement to media.

“The family requests that their privacy be respected at this difficult time.”

Crown lived in Chicago however regularly travelled to Colorado, and he held extra positions at organisations in each states.

He was a managing companion of Aspen Skiing Co, chair emeritus of the Aspen Institute and a trustee at three establishments: the Museum of Science and Industry, the Civic Committee and the University of Chicago.

In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Crown to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

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Local officers are presently investigating the crash.

“The official cause of death is pending autopsy although multiple blunt force trauma is evident. The manner is accident,” the Pitkin County Coroner’s Office stated.

Forbes estimated the Crown household’s wealth at $US10.2 billion ($15.2 billion) in 2020.

Crown is survived by his spouse, 4 youngsters and his mother and father.

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