Red Skelton died on Monday September 17th, 1997.
==== Divorce from Edna, marriage to Georgia ====In 1942, Edna announced that she was leaving Skelton, but would continue to manage his career and write material for him
 In 1980, he was taken to court by 13 of his former writers over a report that his will called for the destruction of recordings of all his old television shows upon his death

