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Ted Koppel's Son Found Dead After Allegedly Binge Drinking
Posted on Tue Jun 1, 2010 07:35 AM PDT
Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel's 40-year-old son Andrew Koppel was found dead in an apartment in upper Manhattan around 1:30am on Monday, according to NYPD detective John Sweeney.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said an autopsy was performed Monday but results were pending further testing, and they won't be available for several weeks.
Koppel had reportedly been drinking for hours with Russell Wimberly, a man he met at a bar. Wimberly told the NY Post, "He had a straw hat on, and I had one on, and he said, 'Nice hat, man.' We got to talking, and he started buying me drinks." Wimberly said that after drinking, he and Koppel ended up at the apartment of his friend Belinda Caban. After Koppel passed out, they assumed he was sleeping but a little bit later the two found that he had gotten sick and appeared not to be breathing, at which point they called 911.
Sad.
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Comments
People should not binge drink. No sympathy here for an adult who does that.
Let's hope they don't try to shift blame to the people he was with.
Unless they forced him to drink, it as his own fault.
GAY!
Secret double life.
Hope his family is proud of this idiot.
Hope Koppel does a special on drinkers
who over binge...like his own son..!!!
Don't need to blame the people around
him...Where was his dad..who is unemployed right now..why not help him
out eh like rehab maybe..
people, why are you so mean..........the man's son just died, let him mourn and get a life yourselves. I hope you people never have a tragedy in your perfect lives.