Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN in 1980, has died at age 87. CNN reported that he died Wednesday,

Jane Fonda is honoring to her late ex-husband, Ted Turner, after he died May 6 at age 87. The actress was married to the CNN founder from 1991 until 2001. Turner announced that he'd been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2018.