By Banzay on 17:01
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More sad news today: Andrew Koppel, Former ABC News Nightlight Host Ted Koppel's son, died reportedly after a day of drinking. The New York Post reports that Andrew Koppel, 40, of Rockaway Park, Queens, passed away from a day-long drinking binge. The question is just how much did Andrew Koppel drink?Worked for City of New YorkAndrew H. Koppel was a lawyer with the New York Housting Authority and had his own general practice legal business based in Woodbridge, NJ. Andrew Koppel's website reports "The Law Firm of Andrew H. Koppel, Esq., is dedicated to providing quality legal services at affordable rates. We are centrally located in Woodbridge, NJ and able to accomodate clients throughout the State."Koppel was on FacebookAndrew H. Koppel also had a Facebook page where the New York lawyer has a photo of himself in crisp shirt and tie with a Budweiser in hand.This blogger double-checked to make sure this was the Andrew Koppel by including his middle initial "H" in a Google search. That this is the person is confirmed by several news sources, eBebo one of them.Koppel was found "unconscious and not breathing in a bedroom" at 180th Street at Audubon Avenue. Koppel had been out with Russell Wimberly, a 32-year-old waiter he met at a bar in Hell's Kitchen just 12-hour before. That's when they allegedly went on what would become for Koppel a fatal drinking binge.Wimberly said they went hoping from bar to bar. He said Koppel didn't eat; just drank straight whiskey and beer. From personal experience, three glasses of whiskey is too much for this blogger, unless over three hours and with a good steak dinner and three glasses of water. Just reading the accounts of this story, Koppel had a lot more drink than that over a smaller period of time, and no steak dinner.Ted Koppel loses his only son who was also father to a baby boy. Andrew Koppel has an older sister Andrea and a younger sister Tara.
By Banzay on 07:13
NEW YORK The 40-year-old son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment in upper Manhattan, and the cause of death is being investigated, authorities said Tuesday.Andrew Koppel was declared dead around 1:30 a.m. Monday in the apartment in the Washington Heights neighborhood, Detective John Sweeney said.Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said an autopsy was performed Monday but results were pending further study, including toxicology and tissue testing.» Don't miss a thing. Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.Additional tests were needed to determine the manner and cause of death, Borakove said. They will take a few weeks to complete, she said.Koppel had been drinking for hours with a man he met at a bar, the New York Post reported Tuesday."He had a straw hat on, and I had one on, and he said, 'Nice hat, man,"' his drinking partner, Russell Wimberly, told the newspaper. "We got to talking, and he started buying me drinks."Wimberly said that Koppel drank whiskey, and that neither man had anything to eat all day.Koppel was appointed attorney for the city Housing Authority's civil litigation division in 2001, a post he resigned in 2008, the agency said Tuesday.Ted Koppel was the longtime anchor of the ABC News show "Nightline." Andrew Koppel, of Queens, was one of his four children. A call to the elder Koppel's publicist was not immediately returned Tuesday.Andrew Koppel was convicted of misdemeanor assault in 1994 for striking a U.S. Senate aide during an argument at a Capitol Hill automated teller machine. At the time, he was a student at Georgetown Law School.Wimberly said that after drinking, he and Koppel eventually wound up at the apartment, which belonged to Wimberly's friend. He and the friend, Belinda Caban, told Koppel to sleep it off and later found that he had gotten sick and appeared not to be breathing, the Post said. The two said they called 911.
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