Carol Bongiovi, Mother of Jon Bon Jovi, Dies at 83
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Carol Bongiovi, mother of Jon Bon Jovi, and a familiar face to fans as the founder of the Bon Jovi band’s fan club, died Tuesday at 83.
The death of the woman known to some fans as “Mom Jovi” came three days shy of her 84th birthday at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey.
No cause of death was given. “Our mother was a force to be reckoned with; her spirit and can-do attitude shaped this family,” Jon Bon Jovi said in a statement announcing the news. “She will be greatly missed.” After decades of figuring big in family — and therefore band — lore, Carol Bongiovi made an appearance of sorts in one of her son’s latter-day music videos, as did her husband of 63 years, John Bongiovi, Sr., who survives her.
For his “Story of Love” video in 2021, the rocker sang in front of a large black-and-white portrait of his parents in their youth, reinforcing just how long they’d been together — even as he alluded to his own longstanding union with his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Bongiovi. “What I got from my parents was the ability to make the dream reality,” Bon Jovi told the Big Issue in 2020. “Even if you truly weren’t any good at your craft, if you believed you were, you could work on it.
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