The state of antediluvian "Tonight Show" announcer Johnny Carson has transferred more than $156 million to Carson's foundation, according to encumber returns acquired by The Smoking Gun. The website, which posts permissible documents, cessation records and the phizog shots commonly involving celebrities, reported that the change was revealed in a 2008 tax renewal filed three months ago by the John. W. Carson Foundation.
It is not known whether the $156 million represents the volume of Carson's residual stratum or whether the simoleons is earmarked for any specific cause. Representatives of Carson's understructure could not be reached Tuesday. Before his destruction in 2005, Carson annually transferred means to his foundation, which was created in 1981, although the amounts were in the main around $1 million to $2 million, The Smoking Gun reported. Carson, who hosted "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992, grew up in Norfolk and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1949.
He has donated about $10 million to Norfolk and $11 million to UNL. The foundation's 2008 customs return, which covered the pecuniary year from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, listed just one give to a Nebraska conglomerate -- $50,000 to the Norfolk Senior Center.
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