The distraught, pregnant girlfriend of newsman Ted Koppel’s son yesterday broke her silence, calling his binge-drinking death “a devastating tragedy for our family.
“We will always remember Andrew as a generous, loving and compassionate father, partner and friend,” Ilona Lieberman said in the statement read by her sister, Michelle, outside their parents’ home in Rockaway Beach, Queens.
“Our family grieves enormously.”
Andrew Koppel, who had a 2-year-old daughter, Alice, with Lieberman, was cremated in New York on Tuesday.
The 40-year-old lawyer was found dead early Memorial Day in a seedy Washington Heights apartment. He had spent the previous day boozing it up at a Hell’s Kitchen bar.