Talk Show King Larry King Has Passed Away After Fighting Coronavirus

Award-winning broadcaster Larry King has died at the age of 87 this month.
The legendary host passed away on January 23rd at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after he had contracted the coronavirus in late December. He had been hospitalized earlier this month.

King’s company Ora Media made the announcement about his passing but no information was available such as the cause of death.

King, who spent most of his time with CNN, was the host of a CNN talk show that became one of the network’s most-watched and longest-running programs. The network launched the “Larry King Live” television talk show in 1985, and it ran until 2010.

It was in the 1950’s that King began his career in Florida and had made a name for himself in the 1970’s with “The Larry King Show,” an all-night nationwide call-in radio program. He has been awarded two Peabodys, an Emmy, and 10 Cable Ace Awards in his lifetime.

The host has had several health problems in his life including Type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, a quintuple bypass surgery and lung cancer.

It was in 1988 that he founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to help those without health insurance afford medical care.

As for his personal life, King was married a total of eight times to seven women and has fathered five children. Two of them had passed away in 2020 just weeks of each other. One died of a heart attack at 65 while the other died from lung cancer at 51.

He has three remaining sons: Larry Jr. from his brief marriage to Annette Kaye and sons Chance and Cannon from his marriage to Shawn Southwick. King filed for divorce from Southwick in 2019.