Editing Johnny Carson (section)

=== Marriages ===
In October 1949, Carson married Jody Wolcott in [[North Platte, Nebraska]].{{r|tynan19780220}} The marriage was volatile, with infidelities committed by both parties, and ended in divorce in 1963.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117582,00.html Pleading Poverty and Demanding Money, Johnny Carson's First Wife Tells the Sad Secrets of Her Troubled Marriage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101100820/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117582,00.html |date=January 1, 2010 }} By Michelle Green, Sue Carswell, Eleanor Hoover May 7, 1990, Vol. 33 No. 18 ''People''</ref>

Carson married Joanne Copeland the same year, on August 17. After a second protracted divorce in 1972, Copeland received a settlement of $6,000 per month in [[alimony]] until she remarried or until Carson's death (she received it until his death in 2005). She also received "a pretty nice little art collection."{{r|tynan19780220}}<ref>Bushkin, p. 74.</ref> She later had a second marriage that also ended in divorce, and died in California, aged 83, in 2015. She had no children.<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joanne-carson-20150509-story.html Death of Joanne Carson], latimes.com; accessed May 10, 2015.</ref>

At the Carson ''Tonight Show''{{'s}} 10th-anniversary party on September 30, 1972, Carson announced that former model Joanna Holland and he had been secretly married that afternoon,{{r|tynan19780220}} shocking his friends and associates. On March 8, 1983, Holland filed for divorce. The divorce case finally ended in 1985 with an 80-page settlement, with Holland receiving $20 million in cash and property ({{Inflation|US|20000000|1985|fmt=eq}}).

On June 20, 1987, Carson married Alexis Maas. The marriage lasted until his death in 2005.

Carson reportedly joked, "My giving advice on marriage is like the captain of the ''[[Titanic]]'' giving lessons on navigation."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Mary Vespa|title=With Her Marriage in Limbo, Joanna Carson Finds Solace in Friends, Charity and a Job|url=http://people.com/archive/with-her-marriage-in-limbo-joanna-carson-finds-solace-in-friends-charity-and-a-job-vol-19-no-8/|website=People|access-date=August 4, 2017|date=February 28, 1983}}</ref>