Did you know that Larry King lost $2.8 million to Bernie Madoff?

Did you know that Lawrence Harvey Zeiger was Larry King radio announcer?

Did you know that Larry King died January 23, 2021?

Did you know that King won two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE Awards as American television and radio host, whose awards included? 

Did you know that Larry King  over his career, he hosted over 60,000 interviews?^]

Did you know that King was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show?

Did you know that the Larry King show was, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System?From 

Did you know that 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN?

Did you know that King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America?

Did you know that King was born in Brooklyn, on November 19, 1933?

Did you know when one of the station's announcers abruptly quit, King was put on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, working as the disc

jockey from 9 a.m. to noon?

Did you know that King also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast which he was paid $50 a week?

Did you know that King acquired the name Larry King when the general manager claimed that Zeiger was too difficult to remember, so minutes before airtime, Larry chose the surname King, which he got from an advertisement in the Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor?

 

Did you know that The Larry King Show^[42] was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time?

Did you know that King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that first national newspaper's debut in Baltimore-Washington in 1982 until September 2001?

Did you know that CNN's Larry King Live became "the longest-running television show hosted by the same person, on the same network and in the same time slot", and was recognized for it by the Guinness Book of World Records?

Did you know that on June 29, 2010, King announced that after 25 years, he would be stepping down as the show's host?

Did you know that the final edition of Larry King Live aired on December 16, 2010?

Did you know that on February 17, 2012, CNN announced that he would no longer host specials?

Did you know that in March 2012, King co-founded Ora TV, a production company, with his then-wife Shawn Southwick King and Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim?

Did you know that on January 16, 2013, Ora TV celebrated their 100th episode of Larry King Now?

Did you know that in September 2017, King stated that he had no intention of ever retiring and expected to host his programs until he died?

Did you know that Ora TV signed a multi-year deal with Hulu to exclusively carry King's new talk-oriented web series, Larry King Now? 

Did you know that Following his 1987 heart attack, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, a non-profit organization which paid for life-saving cardiac procedures for people who otherwise would not be able to afford them?

Did you know that Larry King was previously part of an investment group that attempted to bring a Major League Baseball franchise to Buffalo, New York, in 1990?

Did you know that Larry King lost $2.8 million to Bernie Madoff?

Did you know that King stated that he was fully atheist in 2015?

Did you know that on February 24, 1987, King had a major heart attack before a successful quintuple-

bypass surgery?

Did you know that from his seven wives, King had five children and nine grandchildren, as well as four great-grandchildren?

 Did you know King wrote two books about living with heart disease. Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack: How a Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery Changed My Life ?

Did you know that On January 2, 2021, it was revealed that King had been hospitalized with COVID-19 ten days earlier in a Los Angeles hospital?

Did you know that King's recovered from COVID-19, but he died of sepsis as a complication on January 23, 2021 at the age of 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles?

Did you know that in February 2021, it was reported that King's widow Shawn Southwick-King had gone to court to contest the deceased's handwritten will written in 2019, which had left his estate (valued at $2 million) to his five surviving children?

 

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