“He was loved and will be missed by his four children: Carrie, Todd, Joely, and Tricia Leigh as well as his six grandchildren. He was an extraordinary talent and a true mensch,” said the statement, using the Yiddish word for a decent, admirable person.
His actress daughter Carrie Fisher highlighted his ailing health earlier this year when she wrote Twitter messages saying her father, who was confined to a wheelchair, was “kind of losing it” with confusion over his whereabouts and friends.
Eddie Fisher started as a nightclub singer and was a chart-topping teen idol in the early 1950s with songs like “Thinking of You” and “Oh! My Pa-Pa.” Legions of adoring female fans sometimes turned his appearances into mob scenes. Coca-Cola gave him a $1 million contract to be its national spokesman and sponsored his television show.
