FILE - This Aug. 17, 1963 file photo shows comedian Johnny Carson and his bride, former television personality and model Joanne Copeland, at a reception in his apartment after their wedding at in New York. Their marriage from 1963 to 1972 ended in divorce. Joanne Carson, who later in life became a close confidant of Truman Capote, died Friday, May 8, 2015 at her home in Los Angeles, according to the executor of her estate. Johnny Carson, who hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992, died in 2005. (AP Photo/File)
May 10, 2015 - 8:02 AM
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Joanne Carson, the second wife of "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson, has died in Southern California. She was 83.
Ed Rada, the executor of her estate, says Carson died Friday at her longtime home in Los Angeles. Rada says she had been in declining health and was in hospice care.
Born Joanne Copeland in Los Angeles, she married Johnny Carson in 1963, a year after he began hosting "The Tonight Show."
After their divorce in 1972, she became close to writer Truman Capote. He kept a writing room at her house, where he died in 1984.
Rada says she will be interred next to Capote at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Joanne Carson had a second marriage late in her life to Richard Rever that also ended in divorce.
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