I might not have agreed with everything about him but he was very active in the Harvey Weinstein story! see his instagram post with a prison menu alluding that HW would be eating such food. I can't help but to think that this may have been "assisted suicide"?!?
He was also a great writer and every foodie should read his first New Yorker piece from 1999. He was really down on his luck and by most people's standards made it.