Larry King died aged 87.
The announcement was made on his Twitter profile.
The famous American journalist had been hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a month due to the coronavirus.
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- Larry King (@kingsthings) January 23, 2021
King had been married 7 times and lost two of his six children last year: Chaia, had by his ex-wife Alene Akins, and Andy, adopted, born of Alene's previous marriage.
Last May he had a heart attack followed by heart surgery last May, three months after he divorced his wife Shawn Southwick after 22 years of marriage.
The journalist hosted the Larry King Live talk show on CNN from 1985 to 2010: for more than a generation he interviewed powerful people, VIPs, celebrities, intellectuals and protagonists of American news events. An unmistakable face, as well as the posture of that bust for which little changed, including braces, one of its distinctive features. What changed was not the look, but only the background graphics to keep up with the style of the times. Until his hospitalization he ran Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America, as well as Sunday's Politicking with Larry King on the same two online channels.