{"id":14083,"date":"2026-02-19T01:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:47:07","slug":"at-74-jay-leno-planning-for-death-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"At 74, Jay Leno planning for death, leaves\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jay Leno, 74, is planning his future while gradually stepping back from public life. After leaving late-night TV,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> he hosted the web series <em>Jay Leno\u2019s Garage<\/em> (2015\u20132022), sharing his love of cars with millions of fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2022, Leno suffered serious burns in a garage fire, followed by multiple fractures in a motorcycle accident two months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Despite these setbacks, his focus remains on his wife, Mavis Leno, whom he married in 1980. Now 77, she is battling dementia,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> and in 2024 a Los Angeles court granted him conservatorship, noting she has \u201cgradually lost awareness of time, space, and even her husband.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leno is arranging his estate to ensure her care. His assets, including his $52 million vehicle collection,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> will go into the Leno Marital Trust. After both pass, the remainder will benefit the JDM Foundation, which plans to create an auto museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His plans reflect devotion to family and a lasting commitment to philanthropy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Leno, 74, is planning his future while gradually stepping back from public life. After leaving late-night TV, he hosted the web series Jay Leno\u2019s Garage (2015\u20132022), sharing his love of cars with millions of fans. In November 2022, Leno suffered serious burns in a garage fire, followed by multiple fractures in a motorcycle accident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14085,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}