Huibert BoumeesterĪt 49, father-of-two Huibert Boumeester took his own life after becoming seriously depressed in the fallout of the £50 billion ($77 billion) takeover of ABN Amro by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Taking matters into his own hands before the scandal broke, Black climbed the 44 floors of his office building and leapt out onto crowded Park Avenue to the horror of onlookers below. His downfall was rooted in the discovery of his $2.5 million bribe offered to the President of Honduras, to reduce export taxes on bananas. The early ’70s saw AMK merge with United Fruit Company. An astute and forward thinking capitalist, Black’s career included stints with Lehman Brothers and then the American Seal-Kap Company, which he renamed AMK.
Black, whose death was immortalized on screen in the Coen Brothers comedy The Hudsucker Proxy, was a Jewish-American businessman and millionaire controller of the United Brands Company. It seems that this may have proven too much for the young man to take. No clear reason could be found for Wraith’s action, but there has been some speculation that he was extremely worried about his father David’s recent stroke.
However, in 2009 he picked up his shotgun and shot himself, leaving no suicide note.
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Thirty-five-year-old Jonathan Wraith - a young British millionaire by virtue of selling his and his father’s portable cabin business for £30 million ($46 million) - was by all accounts a happy and well-adjusted young man. The millions in their bank accounts did nothing to ease their suffering… 10. The following men were all successful businessmen who committed suicide. Mental pressure can take many forms stress can enter our lives at any time, regardless of timing or situation. The will to succeed is overpowering for some, and the pressure can be all-consuming. We live in a society filled with dreams and aspirations of wealth, a society that likes to believe that money will bring with it happiness and success.
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