Larry King, the legendary TV, and radio host died at age 87. He passed away early Saturday morning at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Throughout his 60-year career, he conducted 30,000 interviews and was well-received by many of his fans who viewed his show, “Larry King Live” which catapulted to fame in 1985 on CNN. He interviewed every iconic celebrity on that show from Sir Paul McCartney to the late John F. Kennedy, Jr. to former Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, and Gerald Ford. The show held its final episode on December 16, 2010. He continued his career to start a comedy stand-up series, “Larry King Now.” He also interviewed Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He co-founded the company, Ora Media. He has published more than 20 books and had a USA Today column for decades. He suffered ailments throughout his life which were mostly heart problems and suffered several heart attacks and had quintuple bypass heart surgery in 1987. He married his most recent wife, Shawn King at UCLA Medical Center where he was being treated for chest pains that year. He tied the knot before undergoing cardiac surgery. He’s been in and out of the hospital in 2019 and was told he didn’t have much longer to live.
Larry married a total of eight times to Freda Miller (1952), Annette Kaye (1961) Alene Akins (1961) Mickey Sutphin (1963) Alene again (1967) Sharon Lepore (1976) Julie Alexander (1989) and Shawn (1997). He divorced her in 2019.
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His claim to fame was his original show, “The Larry King Show” which was a nationally-syndicated late-night radio talk show that debuted in 1978 across 28 cities, and in just five years the show was heard in 118 cities.
TMZ reports that Larry was diagnosed with COVID-19 over the holidays and was hospitalized in the ICU and later moved to a regular hospital room and was breathing on his own. However, things took a turn for the worst and he died on Saturday morning.
He is survived by his 5 children, Cannon, Chance, Danny, Kelly, and Larry, Jr.
RIP Legend.