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An auto elements billionaire died final week after reportedly swallowing a bee and being stung by it internally.
As The Telegraph reports, Indian industrialist Sunjay Kapur was enjoying polo through the Queen’s Cup match in Windsor, England when, based on eyewitnesses on the scene, he man shouted “I swallowed one thing” earlier than keeling over.
Although his official explanation for demise hasn’t been launched, reporting from The Telegraph and The Mirror suggests that the 53-year-old billionaire died of a coronary heart assault induced by anaphylactic shock from the sting. Sona Comstar, the auto elements manufacturing firm that Kapur ran, confirmed his death in a press release on social media.
Whereas it is unclear whether or not Kapur had a recognized bee sting allergy, he is not the primary athlete to die after swallowing one of many diminutive hive bugs. Simply six months in the past, a person within the San Francisco Bay space died after he swallowed a bee when he was riding his bike, and a similar fate befall a professional bicycle owner in Brazil in 2023.
As Forbes notes, Kapur inherited his function as chair of Sona Comstar after his father Surinder, the corporate’s founder, died in 2015. With a dozen services world wide unfold throughout areas as far-flung as Serbia and Mexico, roughly 36 p.c of Sona’s $412 billion greenback enterprise comes from electrical car parts.
A longtime buddy of Prince William, Kapur was maybe finest recognized for previously being married to — and allegedly abusing — Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor.
Married for 16 years between 2003 and 2016, Kapoor alleged, per Indian news sources, that the billionaire tried to “public sale” her off to buddies after they have been on their honeymoon and assaulted her when she refused. She additionally claimed in court docket paperwork filed throughout their acrimonious divorce that he as soon as instructed his mom to hit her when she could not match into an merchandise of clothes when pregnant.
Alongside together with his actress ex, Kapur was survived by the 2 kids he shared with Kapoor and a 3rd from his marriage to socialite Priya Sachdev, who like him is an automotive nepo baby.
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