‘Orange Is The New Black’ Creator, Jenji Kohan, 20-Year-Old Son Dies In Ski Accident
The 20-year-old son of television producer Jenji Kohan, who created the series ‘Orange Is The New Black’, died on New Years Eve while skiing in Utah.
Charles Noxon was pronounced dead after skiing into a sign while on a trail at Park City Mountain resort, according to police.
Reports say that he had experience skiing and he was also wearing a helmet at the time.
CNN Reports:
“He was my best work. A list of adjectives don’t do him justice. There is no justice,” Kohan wrote in an emotional Instagram post.
“I am the luckiest person who ever lived in that I got to spend so much time and help grow this brilliant, funny, truly kind and thoughtful person-man-boy. My baby. My golden child. My beautiful boy. I don’t understand what life is now without him in the world. I don’t understand where he’s gone. And I’m broken. How is this real?”
Her son, Charlie Noxon, was vacationing in Park City, Utah, with his father and two siblings. The accident occurred on an intermediate trail near Canyons Village, the Park City Mountain Resort said in a statement.
The Park City Mountain Ski Patrol responded to the scene, the resort said, and Noxon was pronounced dead “after further emergency care and evaluation.”
He was a junior at Columbia University, his father Christopher Noxon told CNN.
Noxon’s father described him as “brilliant, kind, funny, sensitive and loving,” in a statement to CNN on Wednesday.
“He was keenly interested in and deeply curious about the world around him from the time he was a small child. People describe people as brilliant — but Charlie was truly brilliant,” Christopher Noxon said.
This is such a heartbreaking story to hear especially around the holidays. Let us please pray for the family as they go through this difficult time.
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