his seven wives to stay married to him, isn’t bitter — but could have been.Southwick married the legendary broadcaster in 1997, 43 years after King’s first marriage, at age 20, to Frada Miller, a girlfriend from his native Brooklyn when he was still Larry Zeiger.
Miller and King lasted less than a year; their marriage was annulled and King once said he wouldn’t know Miller if he ran into her on the street.Southwick, in contrast, had staying power, and, her friends say, the steeliness needed when going up against the iconic interviewer whose genial on-air persona belied an often difficult, verbally abusive and unfaithful side.Throughout their 23-year marriage, the 61-year-old former singer and actress — who was 26 years King’s junior — was.
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