Andrew Breitbart | died

Andrew Breitbart (February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012)

Andrew Breitbart was an American publisher commentator for the Washington Times, author and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report web site. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped launch her web publication The Huffington Post. He ran his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.

On March 1, 2012, Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's Web site, released a statement saying that Breitbart had died unexpectedly from natural causes earlier that day in Los Angeles.  He was 43 years old.  A bystander saw him collapse while out on a walk in Brentwood shortly after midnight and called paramedics, who rushed him to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where he was declared dead.