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Dick Ebersol Biography
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The Sporting News magazine ranked him #1 of 100 most powerful people in sports, 1996. Had been ranked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 70th in previous years.
Children: Harmony Lucas, Sunshine Lucas, William James Ebersol, Charles Ebersol and Edward ("Teddy") Ebersol.
Was executive assistant to Roone Arledge, president, ABC Sports.
He placed the highest bid ($50,000.00) in a charity auction in 2003 for the privilege of knowing who Carly Simon wrote about in her song "You're So Vain".
On November 28, 2004, a charter plane carrying him and two of his sons, crashed and burst into flames during takeoff in Colorado, killing three people, including his son, Edward (Teddy), aged 14, and seriously injuring Ebersol and son, Charlie, age 21.
In 2006, along with wife Susan St.James, he donated $1.3 million to The Gunnery to help pay for a new dormitory in memory of their son Teddy killed in a plane crash.
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