Obituaries : Richard P. Carlsberg; Developer

Richard P. Carlsberg, founding president of the giant Santa Monica-based real estate development firm Carlsberg Corp. and more recently head of the historic Brooks Lake Lodge near Togwotee Pass in Wyoming, has died in Scotland, where he and his wife were celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary.

A company spokeswoman said Friday that Carlsberg was 57 when he died Oct. 3 of a massive heart attack.

At one point Carlsberg Corp. was one of the Southland’s biggest land development firms. It was sold to Southmark Corp. for $53 million in cash and securities in 1985 after a family dispute over the future of the company. Richard Carlsberg later took over the Wyoming resort, a ski and snowmobile attraction in winter and dude ranch in spring and summer.

The year of the sale marked the first time in 13 years that Carlsberg Corp. had posted a deficit.

Carlsberg, who was a member of the board of the UCLA Foundation and past trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, was an inveterate outdoorsman. His business travels and vacations had taken him to Siberia, Outer Mongolia, Afghanistan, India, Africa and all of Europe.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara; two daughters, a son and a sister.