Jay Leno officially granted conservatorship of wife Mavis amid her dementia diagnosis and ‘difficult period’

Jay Leno has been officially granted conservatorship of his spouse, Mavis Leno, who was diagnosed with dementia.

Mavis’ attorney reported she was “in agreement” with the conservatorship throughout a hearing at Los Angeles County Top-quality Court on Tuesday, Men and women reviews. Mavis included that she’s “receiving exceptional treatment with her husband, Mr. Leno.”

“I consider she’s in the the very least restrictive natural environment,” the choose agreed. “I think she’s in really fantastic care with Mr. Leno.”

The decide then explained to Leno, 73, “everything you are carrying out is right” and “I thoroughly recognize this is a challenging period.” He extra that the Tv set personality is “fit” for the part.

The former “Tonight Show” host went on to note that he is in the method of estate organizing and on the lookout at his wife’s will.

Before this thirty day period, court docket documents disclosed that Mavis, 77, “sometimes does not know her husband nor her date of birth” amid her health struggles. The assertion, which was built by Mavis’ court docket-appointed lawyer, Robert Ostrin, was submitted in Los Angeles as an update to an earlier petition to make it possible for Leno to be her conservator.

On top of that, the report stated that Mavis “has a ton of disorientation” and “will ruminate about her mother and father who have each passed and her mom who died about 20 several years in the past.”

“Based on my conversation with Mr. Leno, in addition some research I have accomplished, he would seem to be a standup guy,” Ostrin stated. “And his private persona matches the general public persona he jobs.”

In January, Leno advised Day-to-day Mail he experienced programs to set up her will. “She’s wonderful. Everybody’s excellent, we’re executing perfectly,” the comedian claimed at the time. “[I] established up a will, in situation a little something transpires.”

The couple married in 1980 just after meeting at the Comedy Shop in the ’70s. They do not have any small children.