San Diego Mourns the Loss of Union-Tribune Scion David Copley

For David Copley, the last of four family members to preside over the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper before the publication was sold to a private equity company in 2009, there was no real warning.

Per a report in U-T San Diego, he skipped a reception at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego after chairing a board meeting there last night, saying that he wasn’t feeling well. He later crashed his Aston Martin into a parked car and it is suspected that he suffered a heart attack while at the wheel.

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