{"id":4741,"date":"2025-07-22T14:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:25:25","slug":"at-74-jay-leno-plans-for-death-leaving-a-portion-of-wealth-to-vehicles-no-one-lives-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"At 74, Jay Leno plans for death, leaving a portion of wealth to vehicles \u2013 \u201cno one lives forever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Leno, 74, former Tonight Show host and car enthusiast, is planning his estate, including a major donation to an automobile museum. After hosting Jay Leno\u2019s Garage (2015\u20132022), with 3.7 million YouTube followers, he survived a 2022 garage fire and a motorcycle accident. Leno, married to Mavis since 1980, became her conservator in 2024 due to her dementia. He\u2019s set up the Leno Marital Trust for his $52 million car collection, which will fund a museum via the JDM Foundation after their deaths. Leno will also leave $7 million to Mavis\u2019 brother and his nephew. They plan to stay home with carers as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jay Leno, 74, former Tonight Show host and car enthusiast, is planning his estate, including a major donation to an automobile museum. After hosting Jay <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4741\" title=\"At 74, Jay Leno plans for death, leaving a portion of wealth to vehicles \u2013 \u201cno one lives forever.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}