LEGENDARY U.S. TALK SHOW HOST LARRY KING DIES AT 87

Larry King, the longtime CNN host who became an icon through his interviews with countless newsmakers and his sartorial sensibilities, has died. He was 87.

Tom Kludt, Brad Parks and Ray Sanchez reported for CNN that King did 30,000 interviews in his career, did 6,000 shows for CNN, had seven failed marriages and joined his two children, Andy King, 65, and daughter Cahia King, 52, who both died in 2020, in the afterlife.

"Both of them were good and kind souls and they will be greatly missed," King wrote. "Losing them feels so out of order. No parent should have to bury a child," King said.

The New York Times wrote: “Larry King, who shot the breeze with presidents and psychics, movie stars and malefactors — anyone with a story to tell or a pitch to make — in a half-century on radio and television, including 25 years as the host of CNN’s globally popular ‘Larry King Live,’ died on Saturday in Los Angeles.”

King’s son, Chance, confirmed his father’s death Saturday morning. "With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles," the statement said.

"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster."

King was confined at the hospital in October 2020 due to COVID-19 infection.

The son of an immigrant Lithuanian mother and a Ukrainian father, Lawrence Harvey Zeiger was born in Brooklyn on November 19, 1933.

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