Larry King - WTF?
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Don’t ask me how I ended up down this Wikipedia rabbit hole but you gotta read this. Into his 50s and 60s he’s still proposing to women on the first date? And they’re saying yes? TF?
King has been married eight times, to seven women.[75] He married high-school sweetheart Freda Miller in 1952 at age 19.[76] That union ended the following year at the behest of their parents, who reportedly had the marriage annulled.[76] King was later briefly married to Annette Kaye,[76] who gave birth to his son, Larry Jr., in November 1961. King did not meet Larry Jr. until the latter was in his thirties.[77]
In 1961, King married his third wife, Alene Akins, a Playboy Bunny, at one of the magazine's eponymous nightclubs. King adopted Alene's son Andy in 1962; the couple divorced the following year.[76] In 1963, King married his fourth wife, Mary Francis "Mickey" Stuphin, who divorced King.[76] He remarried Akins, with whom he had a second child, Chaia, in 1969.[76] The couple divorced a second time in 1972.[76] In 1997, Dove Books published a book written by King and Chaia, Daddy Day, Daughter Day. Aimed at young children, it tells each of their accounts of his divorce from Akins.
On September 25, 1976, King married his fifth wife, mathematics teacher and production assistant Sharon Lepore. The couple divorced in 1983.[78]
King met businesswoman Julie Alexander in 1989, and proposed to her on the couple's first date on August 1, 1989.[79] Alexander became King's sixth wife on October 7, 1989, when the two were married in Washington, D.C.[80] The couple lived in different cities, however, with Alexander in Philadelphia, and King in Washington, D.C., where he worked. They separated in 1990 and divorced in 1992.[80] He became engaged to actress Deanna Lund in 1995, after five weeks of dating, but they remained unmarried.[81]
In 1997, he married his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, born in 1959[82][83] (as Shawn Ora Engemann),[82] a singer, actress, and TV host.[84] They wed in King's Los Angeles hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel.[83] The couple have two children: Chance, born March 1999, and Cannon, born May 2000, both graduates of Beverly Hills High School.[85] He is stepfather to Arena Football League quarterback Danny Southwick.[86] On King and Southwick's 10th anniversary in September 2007, Southwick joked she was "the only [wife] to have lasted into the two digits".[84] Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce in 2010 but reconciled,[83][87][88] and filed for divorce again on August 20, 2019.[89][90]
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@Axtremus said in Larry King - WTF?:
We need to ask the women why.
@brenda @taiwan_girl @Catseye3 @Klaus and other women of TNCR, what say you?
If you haven’t made up your mind after one night, you are a pathetic wuss.
By the way, it’s nice to see you accept my chosen identity, but I’d also appreciate if you’d use my preferred pronoun, his/her majesty.
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@George-K said in Larry King - WTF?:
(OK, I won't ask)
He's always struck me as being kinda creepy. But your shock about women accepting is well-deserved.
The hell?
He always was creepy for sure but one of the best interviewers going. Strange attraction even for me. Haha.
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@Klaus said in Larry King - WTF?:
@Axtremus said in Larry King - WTF?:
We need to ask the women why.
@brenda @taiwan_girl @Catseye3 @Klaus and other women of TNCR, what say you?
If you haven’t made up your mind after one night, you are a pathetic wuss.
By the way, it’s nice to see you accept my chosen identity, but I’d also appreciate if you’d use my preferred pronoun, his/her majesty.
(Translated that would be 'Mein Fuhrer')
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I suppose there's a tiny possibility that it's his money.
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@Friday said in Larry King - WTF?:
I thought that too. But he wasn't always rich, was he?
When he was younger he used to knock them over the head with his gigantic knob.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Larry King - WTF?:
I suppose there's a tiny possibility that it's his money.
I think his personality is also infectious as weall. I’d call it a combo.
