Robert Downey Jr. and Avengers cast mourn death of assistant Jimmy Rich: ‘A terrible and shocking tragedy’ – 9TheFIX

Jimmy Rich, who served as Robert Downey Jr.’s assistant since 2003, has died. He was 52.
Downey, 56, shared the news of the “terrible and shocking tragedy” on his Instagram page, where he revealed Rich was in a fatal car accident on Monday night.
The pair first worked together on 2003’s The Singing Detective, where Downey starred alongside Mel Gibson as detective novelist Dan Dark. In total, Rich served as Downey’s assistant on 22 feature-length projects, including every Marvel film with Tony Stark.
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