Eddie Money

Television, film, and radio career Money made several screen appearances.

In 1997, he appeared in Wonderland, a documentary film about Levittown, New York, where Money attended high school. In the film, he said if he had "two tickets to paradise, I'd probably get back to Levittown."

Money played a fictionalized version of himself on a 1999 episode of season 5 of The Drew Carey Show. In the episode, he had been Mimi Bobeck's first husband early in his career, and they were long separated but never officially divorced. In May 2002, he played himself on an episode of the sitcom The King of Queens.

In October 2011, Money became the host of "Money in the Morning," a radio show on WSRV. The gig lasted about three months. He appeared in a 2012 GEICO insurance commercial in which he is depicted as a travel agency owner who sings "Two Tickets to Paradise" to a family that wants tickets for a vacation. to produce special projects, including "Money for the Animals", a tour with MTV VJ Nina Blackwood designed to raise funds and adopt rescue animals in need.

In 2018, Money appeared in episode 6 of The Kominsky Method as a fictionalized version of himself who is indebted to the Internal Revenue Service and portrays the character Freddie Money in an eponymous tribute act at a casino to avoid further tax problems.

On April 8, 2018, Real Money, a reality television series about Money and his family, debuted on AXS TV. An episode sharing his cancer diagnosis aired on AXS TV the day before he died. The show's second season was expected to follow Money's "journey as he tells his family about the disease and undergoes treatment."

In late April 2018, Weekly Alibi's August March interviewed Money, who discussed his career, family, and new television show.

Personal life and death

In 1980, after drinking alcohol, Money overdosed on a synthetic barbiturate that he mistook for cocaine. He suffered damage to the sciatic nerve on his left leg, was unable to walk for months, and had a permanent limp thereafter.

Money married Laurie Harris in 1989. They had five children: Zachary, Jesse (Jessica), Joseph, Julian, and Desmond. They were married for 30 years and had renewed their vows three months before his death.

In March 2000, Money purchased a home in Westlake Village, California, where he lived with his family. At one point in the early 2000s, Money also had a home in Island Estates, a gated community in Palm Coast, Florida, which he called "my place to play golf, be creative, go fishing, go surfing and have fun".

In 2001, Money joined a 12-step program to deal with his drinking and made a promise to his wife and children that he would change. In 2003, he reported that he was clean and sober. he died of complications from the cancer at Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles on September 13, 2019, at age 70. A year later, his family filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful death against the hospital, with an additional allegation of medical malpractice.

Discography

Studio albums Eddie Money (1977) Life for the Taking (1978) Playing for Keeps (1980) No Control (1982) Where's the Party? (1983) Can't Hold Back (1986) Nothing to Lose (1988) Right Here (1991) Love and Money (1995) Ready Eddie (1999) Wanna Go Back (2007)