King, who was born in November 1933 to an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, is at high risk not only for his advanced age but also for his medical record. In 1987 he underwent bypass surgery after suffering a heart attack and over the years has been involved in dealing with heart disease in interviews and books he has published.
Just recently King lost two of his children, Andy who died in late July at the age of 65 from a heart attack and an animal who died three weeks later in August at the age of 52 after battling lung cancer. The two were born to King and his third wife, Aline Akins, whom he married twice during the 1960s.
King has three more sons, Larry Jr., 59, who was born by his second wife Annette Kay and whom King only discovered in the 1990s, and two younger sons from his current marriage to his seventh wife Sean Southpic, Chance (21) and Cannon (20) . The couple filed for divorce in 2010 but returned them and declared peace at home. Last year King again filed for divorce. King also has nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Since retiring from CNN in the last decade, he has begun presenting the “Larry King Now” interview program on the billion-dollar Carlos Slim pay-per-view service, which is also available on the US streaming service Hulu.