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Billionaire Jacqueline Mars Pleads Guilty in Fatal Car Crash

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By Andrew Zajac

December 5, 2013 at 8:40 PM UTC

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Billionaire Jacqueline Badger Mars, the co-owner of the Mars Inc. candy company, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of reckless driving in connection with a northern Virginia crash that killed an 86-year-old woman.

Mars, 74, was fined $2,500 and her driver’s license was suspended for six months.