Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Dead at 92

Nancy Daly (L) and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan (R) pose at the Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services (OYHFS) Mentor Awards at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, on Oct. 26, 2005. Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images for OYHFS

LOS ANGELES—Funeral services were pending April 20 for Richard Riordan, the venture capitalist who was Los Angeles’s mayor from 1993–2001 and faced the challenges of rebuilding the city—first from the Rodney King riots, then the Northridge earthquake.

Riordan “passed peacefully this evening at his home in Brentwood, surrounded by his wife Elizabeth, family, friends, and precious pet dogs,” his family announced April 19 night. Riordan was 92.