Newsmaker -- Television Innovator Griffin Dies at 82

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 14, 2007

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LOS ANGELES - Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82.

Griffin died of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his family that was released by Marcia Newberger, spokeswoman for The Griffin Group/Merv Griffin Entertainment.

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Newsmaker -- Television Innovator Griffin Dies at 82

From his beginning as a $100-a-week San Francisco radio singer, Griffin moved on as vocalist for Freddy Martin's band, sometime actor in films and TV game and talk show host, and made Forbes' list of...

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