Editing Jack Valenti (section)

==Personal life==
Valenti married Mary Margaret Wiley who served on the staff of President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. They had three children: John, Alexandra, and Courtenay Valenti, who became a [[Warner Bros.]] studio executive. He died just before their forty-fifth wedding anniversary.

[[Nancy Clark Reynolds]] had been a love interest of Valenti.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/us/politics/nancy-clark-reynolds-dead.html|title=Nancy Clark Reynolds, a Player in Reagan's Washington, Dies at 94|first=Clay|last=Risen|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 10, 2022|accessdate=June 14, 2022}}</ref>

In 1964, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] conducted an investigation concerning whether Valenti had a sexual relationship with a male photographer, at a time when homosexual acts were still illegal in many parts of the United States. The investigation concluded that there was no evidence of Valenti being homosexual.<ref>{{cite news |title=FBI probed sexuality of L.B.J. aide Jack Valenti |website=[[MSNBC]] |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29274439/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221073945/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29274439/ |archive-date=February 21, 2009}}</ref>

=== Death ===
Valenti died from complications of a stroke at his home in Washington on April 26, 2007, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halbfinger |first=David M. |date=April 26, 2007 |title=Jack Valenti, confidant of presidents and stars, dies at&nbsp;85 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/27valenticndcnd.html?scp=1&sq=%22Jack%20Valenti%22%20dies&st=cse |access-date=July 9, 2008}}</ref> He is buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] under a veteran's gravestone, which lists both his war decorations and his years as president of the MPAA.<ref>{{cite web |title=Valenti, Jack Joseph |series=Burial details |website=ANC Explorer |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/Cgd2YWxlbnRpEgRqYWNrGgFq/}}</ref> His memoirs ''This Time, This Place: My life in war, the White House and Hollywood'' were published on May 15, 2007, a few weeks after his death.<ref name="Thomas Mallon 2007"/>

Following his death, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) launched the NIAF Jack Valenti Institute, which provides support to Italian-American film students, in his memory. Director [[Martin Scorsese]] launched the institute at the Foundation's 32nd Anniversary Gala, after receiving an award from Mary Margaret Valenti.