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Correction: Obit-Mellon story

FILE- In this June 10, 2014, file photo, Nicole Mellon, left, and Matthew Mellon, right, attend the Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon launch event in New York. Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon has died. His cousin Peter Stephaich confirmed Mellon's death but declined Tuesday, April 17, 2018, to provide any details. He was 54. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
Original Publication Date April 16, 2018 - 11:21 PM

In a story April 17 about the death of Matthew Mellon, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Mellon had died at a rehabilitation centre in Cancun, Mexico. Police have confirmed that Mellon died in a Cancun hotel room prior to checking into the rehab facility.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon dies at 54

Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon has died. He was 54.

By MICHELLE A. MONROE

Associated Press

Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon has died. He was 54.

Police in Cancun, Mexico, said he was found dead in a hotel room. He had struggled with drug addiction, and a rehabilitation centre in the resort town said he had been due to check in there Monday.

Mellon comes from the Mellon and Drexel families of Bank of New York Mellon and Drexel Burnham Lambert.

According to Mellon's Linked In account and documents of the Securities and Exchange Commission, he attended the Wharton School and later worked in fashion, telecommunications and finance, most recently as an adviser for the digital currency company Ripple Labs.

Mellon also served for a time as the chairman of the finance committee of the Republican Party in New York.

Mellon is survived by his first wife, fashion designer Tamara, his second wife, fashion designer Nicole Hanley, and three children.

Testifying at a trial where Mellon was acquitted of hiring a private detective to snoop into Tamara Mellon's finances, the co-founder of Jimmy Choo shoes said she and her husband had met at a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous when both were recovering from addiction.

The two married in 1999 at Blenheim Palace, one of England's grandest homes, with friends Elizabeth Hurley and actor Hugh Grant among the guests. They divorced several years later.

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