Jay Leno, granted a conservatorship over the estate of his 79-year-old wife in 2024, is seeking to register the conservatorship in New Hampshire so he can sell community property real estate there.
Mavis Leno has advanced Alzheimer’s disease that sometimes leaves her unaware of her birthdate or who her husband is.
Leno, 76, filed a petition for conservatorship of the estate of Mavis Leno in Los Angeles Superior Court in January 2024 and Judge Brenda Penny granted his request in April of that year, telling the comedian he was doing the right thing. The judge also said Mavis Leno was in good care and that she understood the difficulty of Jay Leno’s situation.
On Aug. 5, Leno’s attorneys notified the court that he will be filing a “registration and recognition of foreign guardianship” along with protective orders with the New Hampshire 10th Circuit’s Probate Division “for the purpose of registering the conservatorship in New Hampshire in order to sell certain real estate” located in the New England state that is held as community property by the Lenos.
The court papers do not state what kind of real estate the couple own in New Hampshire or in what part of the state. Jay Leno was born in Massachusetts and also owns real estate in Rhode Island.
Mavis Leno’s lawyer, Ronald Ostrin, filed a report with the court in 2024, saying he supported a conservatorship and that Mavis Leno did as well.
Ostrin further said that according to Mavis Leno’s neurologist, Dr. Hart Cohen, Mavis not only sometimes does not know her husband or her birthdate, but also has “a lot of disorientation, (and) will ruminate about her parents who have both passed (including) her mother who died about 20 years ago.”
Cohen was hired for consultation after Mavis Leno had a car accident in 2018 and has been following her mental condition since, according to Ostrin.
The couple married in 1980. Mavis Leno is a philanthropist and feminist who kept a low profile compared to her comedian husband, a former host of “The Tonight Show.”
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Jay Leno to Register Wife’s Conservatorship in New Hampshire
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