Billionaire James Crown, aged 70, dies in a motorsport crash

Crown died on Sunday, on his birthday🍬, when h෴e crashed into a barrier at the Aspen Motorsports Park.
“The of༒ficial cause of death is pending autopsy although multiple blunt force tra♕uma is evident,” the coroner’s office said in a news release. “The manner is accident.”
James Crown, Chicago billionaire, dead in Colorado race track accident, had announced plans to enlist🎐 CEOs to fight violent crime in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times
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He was a board member at JPMorgan Chase, chairman and CEO of his family business, and manag🎐ing partner of Aspen Skiing Co.
Forbes estimated the Crown family’s wealth at $10.2 billion in 2🉐020.
President Obama appointed C༺rown to the Pꦜresident’s Intelligence Advisory Board in 2014.
President Biden called Crown “a good man, a dea💫r🐭 friend, and a great American.”
B꧋iden added: “Jim lived a great Chicago story – one that tied our nation’s industrious past to an ever-hopeful future. He grew up the great-grandson of a sweatshop worker whose son turned a construction-supply company into an empire.
“Throughout his own career as a ෴business and c꧋ivic leader, Jim continued to drive that legacy forward, bring out the best in his peers, and help shape the city he loved.”

ဣJames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.