TV personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jay-leno">Jay Leno</a> filed to become the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/legal">conservator</a> of his wife&#8217;s estate following her dementia diagnosis.
The 73-year-old former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">host</a> of “The Tonight Show” filed the paperwork in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/01/28/jay-leno-files-conservatorship-wife-mavis-dementia/72388172007/">USA Today</a>. The documents said that Leno’s wife, Mavis, 77, &#8220;presently lacks the necessary capacity&#8221; to make her own decisions. 
&#8220;Unfortunately, Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and orientation to space and time for several years,&#8221; the filing says. Mavis’ doctor added a capacity declaration confirming that Leno’s spouse &#8220;suffers from dementia, major neurocognitive disorder.&#8221;
The filing further states that Leno aims to manage Mavis&#8217; half of their shared property and her assets in a trust and would provide for her and her brother, the outlet reported.
Leno has been married to Mavis since 1980. The couple does not have any children.
Mavis kept a relatively low profile compared to her famous husband, but she was very devoted to feminist causes and has worked with non-profit organizations, including the Feminist Majority Foundation&#8217;s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, which she’s been involved with since 1997.
Leno made headlines last year after sustaining third-degree burns following a mishap while working on a car with a friend.
“The fuel line was clogged so I was underneath it,” Leno said in a Today Show interview in December 2022. “It sounded clogged and I said [to my friend Dave], ‘Blow some air through the line,’ and so he did.”
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He remembers hearing a noise right before tragedy struck. “And suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas. And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire,” the comedian continued.
“I said to my friend, I said, ‘Dave, I’m on fire.’ And Dave’s like, ‘All right.’ I said, ‘No, Dave, I’m on fire.’ And then, ‘Oh, my God.’ Dave, my friend, pulled me out and jumped on top of me and kind of smothered the fire,” Leno said.
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