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Jay Leno filed for a conservatorship over his wife, Mavis Leno, on Friday, Page Six can confirm.
According to TMZwho was the first to report the news, came forward after Mavis was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
The diagnosis is “the basis of the guardianship,” a source told the outlet.
It is unclear when Mavis, 77, was diagnosed. There will be a hearing for the guardianship on April 9.
A representative for Jay did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
The former “Tonight Show” host, 73, briefly met Mavis in the ’70s after performing at the popular comedy club Comedy Store in Los Angeles. according to people.
They were introduced the following week by mutual friends, and the rest is history.
The couple married in 1980, despite Jay claiming he “wasn’t very good at dating.”
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During a 1987 profile of the comedian, Mavis said he changed his mind about marriage.
“I always had the idea that I would never get married… But with Jay, I began to realize that it was the first time I was with someone and I had a perfect, calm feeling of having arrived at my destination,” she recalled. .
The couple never had children, for which Mavis takes “all the credit.”
“I remember telling my mother when I was 7 or 8 that I would never get married or have children,” she said. told the Washington Post in 2014.
“To me, that’s how they get women.”
Mavis was at Jay’s side when he returned to the comedy stage in November 2022 after suffering third-degree burns to his face and hands as a result of a car explosion.
He later joked that his “new face” was “better than what he had before.”
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