Tributes are pouring in for Richard Lewis, who handed away aged 76 after affected by a coronary heart assault in his Los Angeles house on February 27.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm actor had retired final 12 months after revealing his Parkinson’s illness prognosis, which he had been battling with privately since 2021.
His publicist Jeff Abraham first confirmed the information to Deadline, stating: “His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for all the love, friendship and support and asks for privacy at this time.” The pair tied the knot in 2005, and didn’t have kids collectively.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who starred reverse the late comedian within the ABC sitcom Anything however Love – which ran from 1989 to 1992 – was among the many first of his former co-stars and buddies to pay tribute.
Sharing a photograph on Instagram from their time starring as characters Hannah Miller and Marty Gold, she wrote: “I’ve just read that my friend Richard Lewis has died. I remember exactly where I was when I saw a billboard of him about a stand up special on Sunset Boulevard when we were casting the ABC pilot Anything but Love and asked the casting people to bring him in to audition to play my best friend/maybe boyfriend, Marty Gold.”
“I thought he was handsome. He made me laugh, which is the one thing that a strong, capable woman, can’t really do for herself,” she additional recalled, including: “He got the part when I snort laughed when he mispronounced the word Bundt cake. He blew everyone else away. It was a love triangle show and they didn’t pick up that pilot but they came back to me and said that the chemistry with Richard was so great and could we revamp the original pilot which is the show we ended up making for a couple years.”
After detailing how his final textual content to her was about his hopes that she might persuade ABC or Disney (its guardian firm) to launch “another boxed set of episodes of the show,” she revealed Richard is the reason she is sober.
She shared: “He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for that act of grace alone,” and famous: “He found love with Joyce and that, of course, besides his sobriety, is what mattered most to him.”
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