Jerry Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor and influential talk show host whose work had a significant impact on daytime TV all across the world, has passed away. He was 79.
Jerry Springer studied political science at Tulane University and got a law degree from Northwestern University. He was active in politics much of his adult life, mulling a run for governor of Ohio as recently as 2017.
Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday.