Ted Turner, CNN founder, recovering from pneumonia
CNN — Ted Turner, the 86-year-old media mogul and philanthropist who founded CNN, is recovering from pneumonia and “is doing well in rehab,” a spokesperson said Monday. CNN “While he was diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia in 2018 and despite the health challenges it presents, Ted continues to remain resilient and engaged in his professional and personal endeavors,” Evans said. Turner revealed in 2018 he is living with Lewy body dementia — a common but little-known neurodegenerative disease. Though it is unclear how the media titan’s disease has progressed in recent years, Seydel said her father had a milder, more slowly progressing case of Lewy body than comedian Robin Williams, who died by suicide in 2014 and was posthumously diagnosed with the illness.
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