Malcolm Forbes, the American publisher of Forbes Magazine, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in 1990.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was an American businessman best known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which his father, B. C. Forbes, started. He was renowned as an outspoken supporter of capitalism and free market economics, as well as for his opulent lifestyle, which included spending on parties, travel, and his collection of mansions, boats, planes, art, motorbikes, and Fabergé eggs. Forbes died of a heart attack in 1990, at the age of 70, at his home in Far Hills, New Jersey. Dr. Oscar Kruesi, a friend and physician, pronounced him dead. Malcolm Forbes' son Steve Forbes and granddaughter Moira Forbes have overseen the magazine company since his death.
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