LARRY King left a handwritten will splitting his $50million fortune among his five children and left out his ex-wife just months after their divorce.
King passed away in January at age 87 at a Los Angeles Hospital, shortly after he battled Covid-19.
The will, which King reportedly scribbled by hand after divorcing his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick King, was dated October 17, 2019.
In it, King wrote: “This is my Last Will & Testament. It should replace all previous writings.”
He went on to say that he wanted 100 percent of his money to be “divided equally among my children Andy, Chaia, Larry Jr, Chance & Cannon,” according to TMZ.
Tragically, two of King’s children passed away shortly after he named them in the will.
His son Andy reportedly died of a heart attack in July and his daughter Chaia died of lung cancer shortly afterwards.
One of his surviving children, Larry Jr, filed documents asking to be administrator of his father’s estate, according to TMZ, since King was in the middle of divorce proceedings at the time of his death.
King married Southwick King in 1997 and it was his longest lasting marriage.
The couple share two sons, Chance and Cannon.
They were reportedly still legally married at the time of the legendary talk show host’s death.
King had filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, in August 2019.
They were said to be on good terms, however, and Southwick King said that she was able to speak to him in the hospital – via video call due to Covid restrictions – before he died.
She said his last words to her were, “I love you, take care of the boys,” according to DailyMail.com.
King began his career in the late 1950s as a newspaper journalist and Miami DJ before expanding his radio repertoire to celebrity interviews and sporting event commentary.
His career spanned decades and he interviewed some of the most famous people in the world.
He counted Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, the late John F Kennedy Jr., Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Prince, Lady Gaga, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, and LeBron James in his portfolio of work.
