Obit Joanne Carson

FILE - This Aug. 17, 1963 file photo shows comedian Johnny Carson and his bride, former television personality and model Joanne Copeland, at a reception in his apartment after their wedding at in New York. Their marriage from 1963 to 1972 ended in divorce. Joanne Carson, who later in life became a close confidant of Truman Capote, died Friday, May 8, 2015 at her home in Los Angeles, according to the executor of her estate. Johnny Carson, who hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992, died in 2005. (AP Photo/File)