12:24 PM EDT 08/25/2008
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Hospital Disputes Ed McMahon's Lawsuit Claims
Originally posted 08/22/2008 05:00PM
The soap opera that is Ed McMahon's life continued this week, with attorneys for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles requesting that a court toss out many of the former Tonight Show sidekick's legal claims against it.
On Wednesday, the hospital's legal team filed papers declaring that McMahon failed to prove his allegations of fraud, battery, elder abuse and emotional distress, the Associated Press reports.
The facility's attorneys also seek to prevent the 85-year-old TV veteran from securing punitive damages.
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Trump to the Rescue! He Buys Ed McMahon's Home
Originally posted 08/15/2008 09:20AM
Looks like financially beleaguered Ed McMahon will have a new landlord: Donald Trump.
The tycoon says he will save the veteran television personality's Beverly Hills mansion from foreclosure by buying it – and leasing it back to the octogenarian.
Trump, who does not know McMahon personally, said it "would be an honor" to help out the man who spent three decades as Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show. "When I was at the Wharton School of Business I'd watch him every night."
McMahon, 85, bought the six-bedroom house in January 1990. Down from a peak price of $7 million, the property was listed at a bargain $4.6 million last weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Paperwork on the sale has not been completed, but McMahon was "very optimistic" the deal would go through, his spokesman told the Associated Press.
– Caris Davis
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Ed McMahon Goes Back to Work – with Jimmy Kimmel
Originally posted 07/25/2008 05:00PM
Ed McMahon, whose recent money woes have been a topic of national news coverage, has found employment.
Johnny Carson's longtime Tonight Show sidekick is exercising his pitchman pipes by delivering a series of comical commercials for Pontiac cars that will be aired starting Monday on ABC's late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Associated Press reports.
"It felt very good to be out of the brace and working again," McMahon, 85, said Friday, referring to the brace he requires after undergoing a third neck operation. (He is suing over his injury.) "I spent my whole life doing commercials, so here I was back doing a commercial again. It was very comforting. Believe me."
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Ed McMahon Sues Hospital, Billionaire Over Broken Neck
Originally posted 07/18/2008 08:00PM
Ed McMahon filed suit Friday against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a billionaire homeowner over a broken neck the TV personality suffered when he fell at a dinner party.
McMahon, 85, a longtime product pitchman and Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show, says the injury has prevented him from working and has contributed to his financial crisis.
According to the L.A. Superior Court suit, McMahon tumbled on "unsafe entry stairs" at a March 2007 dinner party at the home of Robert Day, the founder of the Los Angeles investment management firm TCW Group.
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Ed McMahon Explains 'Embarrassing' Money Woes
Originally posted 06/06/2008 08:30AM
Speaking publicly for the first time since news broke that he might lose his Beverly Hills home, Ed McMahon appeared on CNN's Larry King Live Thursday night, explaining, "I want to speak for the million people [in America] who now have foreclosure signs on their houses."
In an appearance that, at times, produced more questions than answers – such as why McMahon, 85, was sporting a neck brace or how, after a decades-long TV career, he could be financially squeezed – McMahon repeatedly called himself "optimistic."
"If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens," he said. "A couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that." Added his current wife, Pam McMahon: "Because you're a celebrity, people think you have more than you have."
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Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills Home in Foreclosure
Originally posted 06/04/2008 05:15PM
Ed McMahon – familiar for decades as Johnny Carson's Tonight Show sidekick, Star Search host and pitchman for the American Family Publishers' sweepstakes – is facing a crisis currently familiar to a lot of property owners: possible foreclosure of his home.
McMahon, 85, reportedly is approximately $644,00 in arrears on his six-bedroom, five-bathroom home within an exclusive gated community in Beverly Hills called The Summit – the same enclave where Britney Spears lives.
On the market for two years, McMahon's residence carries an asking price of $5.75 million – and a $4.8 million mortgage, according to a Feb. 28 default notice filed with the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office by a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp., reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Clinton Feels 'Good' Before New Surgery
Originally posted 03/09/2005 08:50AM
REASSURED: Former President Bill Clinton, who will undergo a low-risk medical procedure on Thursday to remove fluid and scar tissue from the left side of his chest, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday: "It'll knock me out of commission for a week or two, and then I'll be back to normal. I'm not in too bad a shape," he added. "I feel good." The procedure, to take place at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, comes six months after he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. Clinton, 58, will remain hospitalized for three to 10 days and is expected to make a "full functional recovery," doctors said.
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