Joanne Carson, the second wife of Johnny Carson and the host of her own syndicated talk show, died in 2015, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 83.
She had been in hospice care, Ed Rada, the executor of her estate, said.
Born Joanne Copeland in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 1931, she married Carson in 1963, a year after he began hosting “The Tonight Show.”
She had appeared as the co-host of an early 1960s game show, “Video Village,” and later had her own syndicated health-and-fitness talk show, “Joanne Carson’s V.I.P.’s.” She went on to earn a master’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry and physiology.
