Larry King, the legendary American broadcaster who was a fixture of cable news for decades, has died. He was 87.
King passed away Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, the company King founded after leaving CNN. No information was immediately available about his cause of death.
was known for asking easy, open-ended questions to guests, making him an attractive interviewer to important figures in politics and Hollywood.
In 2012, King co-founded a production company called Ora TV with Mexican media magnate Carlos Slim. Through that company, King hosted the webs series “Larry King Now” which was made available on the streaming service Hulu.
King was married eight times to seven women and fathered five children. His children with then-wife Alene Akins, Andy and Chaia King, died within weeks of each other in the summer of 2020. Andy, 65, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in July, and Chaia, 51, died in August after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Akins, a former Playboy bunny, died in 2017.
King had three other 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.
