Adoptive daughter of Jerry Lewis and SanDee Pitnick, Danielle Sara Lewis, nicknamed "Dani" was named after both Jerry Lewis' vaudevillian father Daniel Levitch aka Danny Lewis and Jerry's grandmother, Sara Brodsky Rothberg.
He had six sons with his first wife whom he married in 1944 and divorced in 1980. He married a second wife in 1983 and eventually adopted a newborn daughter with her. Lewis did not give any specific reasons why he disinherited his sons. It is not known whether the sons will contest the will.
"He adopted the baby at birth and he told me, "I'm 66, but I'm not starting my life all over again. '" The comedian and his 41-year-old second wife tried to have a baby for five years, but they finally decided to adopt one after she suffered two heartbreaking miscarriages, revealed a friend.
"It's just something that happened," Lewis said when asked how she ended up on the streets. She was born out of wedlock back in the 1950's. Her mother, a model named Lynn Dixon, had a three-year affair with Jerry Lewis.
He says he and his brothers Gary and Ron were not invited to the funeral. However, his brothers Scott and Chris were. But even the brothers who got invited to the funeral where shut out of the will. Lewis left his entire estate to his second wife and their adopted daughter, Danielle.
Jerry Lewis Left Fortune to Wife and Adopted Daughter in Will, Snubbing 6 Sons
What was Jerry Lewis's net worth when he died?
Lewis filed for bankruptcy in 1988. His petition listed over $3 million in debts, including $2 million in Internal Revenue Service debt, tens of thousands in attorney fees, and medical bills. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated to be between $10 million and $15.4 million.
The fact is, Jerry's kids, children who suffer from the degenerative disease muscular dystrophy, are still here. However, Jerry Lewis, the entertainer revered for the amazing national telethon he hosted each Labor Day from 1966 to 2010, seems nearly forgotten.
How old was Jerry Lewis when he married his 13 year old wife?
A public memorial service will be held today at Hernando Funeral Home in Hernando from 5 to 8 p.m. He will be laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Ferriday, Louisiana. Williams was Jerry Lee's second cousin once removed and married the singer in 1957 when she was only 13 years-old and he was 22.
It was 66 years ago today that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis split professionally and relationally, exactly 10 years after they teamed up. The duo had already become drawn apart after 16 movies together, with the crooner thinking the goofball comic was controlling their work, which made the latter feel betrayed.
How many children did Jerry Lewis have with his second wife?
The actor's second marriage was to Sandra Pitnick, they tied the knot on February 13, 1983, and remained married until the star's death. Jerry and Sandra adopted one daughter together - Danielle, who was born in 1992.
Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said Monday that Lewis' official cause of death was end-stage cardiac disease and peripheral vascular disease. Lewis was the clownish comic hailed as an artistic genius and the host for decades of annual muscular dystrophy telethons.
Lewis was married seven times, including bigamous marriages and a marriage with his underage cousin. He had six children during his marriages. When Jerry Lee Lewis was 16, he married Dorothy Barton, the daughter of a preacher. Their union lasted for 20 months, from February 1952 to October 1953.
Eventually Lewis reconciled with his father in the early 80s and the two are now close. "It was tense after I got out of the service but I straightened myself out and everything is cool again," Lewis said. "We have a wonderful relationship. He's great.
Davis left the bulk of his estate, estimated at $4,000,000 (U.S.), to his widow Altovise Davis, but he owed the IRS $5,200,000, which after interest and penalties had increased to over $7,000,000. Altovise became liable for his debt because she had co-signed his tax returns.
Then Martin and Lewis came along, and they were just so different than any of those guys.” As Lewis recalled, “We went from $500 a week in Atlantic City to $4 million a year in 1947 to 48.”
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and — more infamously — his 13-year-old cousin at the time they got married.
It's not great for a 21-year-old to be macking on a 12-year-old, but the fact that the film casts Dennis Quaid, then 35 but looking raddled thanks to a bad peroxide job, opposite Winona Ryder, then 18 but looking much younger, makes it seem even worse.
Martin replaced Phil Bruns who first portrayed the character in his first appearance in Season 1's "The Stake Out". He took on the role upon showrunners Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld deciding they wanted the character of Morty Seinfeld to be harsher, as they thought Bruns was too laid-back for the character.
Jerry's Kids is a Boston, Massachusetts, hardcore punk band, formed in 1981, from Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S. The band was named for "the beneficiaries of the Jerry Lewis telethon".
