Dr. Joyce Brothers dead at 85
Talya C. Arbisser
Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Popular television psychologist and columnist Joyce Brothers passed away at her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Monday, her family confirmed to NBC News. She was 85.
Brothers died peacefully, surrounded by family, according to an obituary written by her family and provided to NBC News.
Dr. Joyce Brothers, known as the first psychologist of the television era, appeared for decades as a talk show regular. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
She was born on October 20, 1927 in New York City and married physician Milton Brothers in 1949.
Her career spanned nearly six decades after her start in 1955 as the only woman to ever win the television quiz show “The $64,000 Question.”
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