That’s right CEOs please get behind the wheel drunk and back your Tesla into a retaining pond.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    In 2009 she married a billionaire. He died a few months later. And then in 2012 she married another billionaire.

    Angela Chao

    Personal life

    Chao married Bruce Wasserstein in January 2009, just months before his death in October of that year. She married Jim Breyer in 2012.

    Also - as her car was sinking - she was on the phone to her friend for eight minutes.

    Death

    On the evening of February 10, 2024, Chao was celebrating the Lunar New Year with friends at her Johnson City ranch. As her guests began going home, she got into her Tesla Model X and accidentally backed into a pond. The car began sinking. Unable to open her door or to break the glass, the car filled with water. Chao was on the phone for eight minutes as the car sank, from around 11:42 to 11:50 p.m., telling her friend she was going to die. Onlookers called 911 and attempted to help.

    Blanco County emergency personnel arrived around midnight and tried to enter the car. A deputy broke the driver’s door window and went underwater where he found Chao and dragged her to shore. EMS workers were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m. on February 11; she was 50 years old. A March 2024 police investigation concluded that Chao’s blood alcohol level was three times above the legal limit, and that her death was the result of an accident.