17:12 PST 2/10/2021
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Mike Barnes
His company, ZeniMax Media, was sold to Microsoft for $ 7.5 billion last year.
Robert A. Altman, the CEO and president of the video game holding company ZeniMax Media and husband of Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter died on February 3 in a Baltimore hospital due to complications from a medical procedure. He was 73 years old.
Altman founded ZeniMax Media, based in Rockville, Maryland, with Bethesda Softworks founder Christopher Weaver in 1999, and the company went on to develop video game properties like Doom, Quake, Rage, Dishonored, Prey, Wolfenstein and The Elder Scrolls .
ZeniMax’s investors included the former president and CEO of CBS Corp. Leslie Moonves, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, baseball Hall of Fame Cal Ripken Jr. and Robert Trump, Donald Trump’s younger brother. In October, the company was sold to Microsoft for $ 7.5 billion.
In a statement, Bethesda called Altman “a true visionary, friend and believer in the spirit of people and in the power of what they could accomplish together. He was an extraordinary leader and an even better human being”.
Altman became Carter’s second husband when they married in 1984, and the couple had two children, Jessica and James.
“Robert is the love of my life and always will be,” she wrote on social media. “Our 37 years of marriage were an extraordinary gift. We share the passion that I hope everyone will be lucky enough to experience in their lives. We protected each other and we were always the champions of each other.
“We have always been grateful for the two beautiful lives we created together: our children, Jessica and James. They are the lights of my life and they were Robert’s greatest joy. I see Robert a lot in them, and I know he lives through them.”
Born in Washington, DC, on February 23, 1947, Altman was the son of Sophie Robinson, who created the question and answer program for TV Is academic.
In a high-profile banking case in 1993, Altman, then a prominent DC lawyer, was accused of trying to defraud regulators, but was acquitted of all charges by a jury.