Steve Mensch speaks onstage during the Atlanta Film Festival’s 2019 IMAGE Film Awards Gala at Fox Theater on April 3, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. Kyle Busch wasn’t planning to simply climb out of a ...

Film and television mogul Tyler Perry took to social media to reveal that Steve Mensch, who served as president of Tyler Perry Studios, was killed when a plane he was piloting in Florida went down.

(CNN) — Steve Mensch, the president and general manager of studio operations at Tyler Perry Studios, died in a plane crash Friday night, according to officials. In an email to CNN on Saturday, Tyler ...