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TV Broadcaster Meredith Vieira’s Husband Richard Cohen Dead at 76 After 50-Year MS Battle

Richard Cohen, respected journalist and husband to Meredith Vieira, died at age 76 following a 50-year battle with MS and other health complications.

Respected journalist Richard Cohen died at the age 76 on Christmas Eve surrounded by his family and wife, Meredith Vieira. Hoda, 60, explained that Richard and Meredith’s kids Benjamin, 36, Gabriel, 34, and Lily, 32, gathered together for Thanksgiving, “concerned” that it would be their last holiday as a family. The couple faced challenges head-on early in their relationship when the former Washington Post columnist told Meredith he had MS, a long-lasting chronic disease of the central nervous system, on their second date.

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