Medicis CEO's Child Dies from Injuries; Second Death in 5-Day Span at Mansion

The 6-year-old son and the 32-year-old girlfriend of a prominent pharmaceutical executive have each died in a span of less than a week, and both deaths were tied to his historic mansion on the San Diego Bay. Max Shacknai died Sunday at a hospital in San Diego almost a week after falling down the stairs at the mansion, Medicis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. chairman and chief executive Jonah Shacknai said in a statement along with ex-wife Dina Romano, the boy’s mother. The death came four days after his father’s girlfriend, 32-year-old Rebecca Nalepa, had been found dead hanging from a balcony in the house, authorities said.

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