Nicolas De Meyer was about to plead guilty to the theft of $1.2 million of wine from his former boss, Goldman Sachs president David Solomon, when he leapt to his death Tuesday. De Meyer, 41, left lawyers waiting in court that afternoon while hotel security, alerted by his family to his suicidal intent, first found him sitting on the window sill in his 33rd-floor room at the Carlyle.
He smiled back at them before he jumped, the New York Post reported.
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