Photos: Sally Jessy Raphael through the years

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Photos: Sally Jessy Raphael through the years

Sally Jessy Raphael through the years

Sally Jessy Raphael talks to radio listeners on Talknet at NBC Studios in New York City, Thursday, July 1, 1982. (AP Photo/David Handschuh)

Sally Jessy Raphael is surrounded by children during taping of her daytime talk show with 120 infants and toddlers in St. Louis, Mo., April 3, 1985. (AP Photo/James A. Finley)

Sally Jessy Raphael, right, with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker during her exclusive one-on-one, one-hour interview with the beleaguered couple, Dec. 19, 1988. (AP Photo) No Sales

Exercise guru Richard Simmons, right, embraces talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael on the set of her show in New York, Wednesday, Feb.10, 1999. On the show which airs Thursday, March, 11, Simmons will try to motivate several young housewives who have become depressed over large weight gains. (AP Photo/studios One, Judie Burstein)

Sally Jessy Raphael is shown with her husband, Karl Soderlund, holding her Emmy statuette at the 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Thursday, June 28, 1990. Raphael won the award for best daytime talk show host. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Sally Jessy Raphael poses with her Emmy statuette for best daytime talk show host at the 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Thursday, June 28, 1990. This is the first Emmy of Raphael's 30-year career. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Talk show hostess Sally Jessy Raphael hold s a news conference in New York April 15,1992 about legal action she is taking against New York's Putnam Country. She said she is accusing the county of negligence after a January auto accident left her 19-year-old son critically injured. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)

Daytime talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael is shown during taping of her show in a New York City studio in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Sally Jessy Raphael, whose daytime talk show is the longest-running of its genre, applauds as former talk show host Dick Cavett does his Richard Nixon impression during the taping of her last show, in New York, Wednesday April 24, 2002. Raphael, a 59-year-old former disc jockey, began the show as a local St. Louis program in 1983, and went national the next year. The show is scheduled to air May 22. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Sally Jessy Raphael, whose daytime talk show is the longest running of its genre, puts on her signature red-framed glasses for the last time during the taping of her last show, in New York, Wednesday April 24, 2002. Raphael, a 59-year-old former disc jockey, began the show as a local St. Louis program in 1983, and went national the next year. The show is scheduled to air May 22. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Talk show titans Joan Rivers, left, and Sally Jessy Raphael chat with Raphael's audience during a taping of her show in New York, Tuesday, May 20, 1997. Rivers and Raphael counseled audience members who feel immobilized because of their own personal tragedies. The program is scheduled to air Monday, June 9, 1997. (AP Photo/Lee Fryd)

TV talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael stands in the audience of her syndicated show at its New York studio in September,1997. Raphael, whose show enters its 15th season this fall, remains on a human scale and is almost willfully ordinary in living with her stardom. (AP Photo)

Sally Jessy Raphael, whose daytime talk show is the longest-running of its genre, is hugged by Max Romanoff, her six-year-old grandson, during the taping of her last show, in New York, Wednesday April 24, 2002. Raphael, a 59-year-old former disc jockey, began the show as a local St. Louis program in 1983, and went national the next year. The final show will air in May. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Daytime talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael, left, looks on as her daughter Andrea cuts the wedding cake with fiance Peter Romanoff during taping of "Andrea's Fantasy Wedding," a bridal-themed show in New York City, Thursday, May 6, 1993. The show also featured a fashion parade of wedding gowns and lingerie along with floral and wedding cake displays. (AP Photo)

Joanna Pacitti, left, sings during the taping of the "Sally Jessy Raphael" program, as Raphael watches, in New York, Wednesday March 5, 1997. The 12-year-old redhead was removed last week from the Broadway-bound revival of "Annie." Pacitti says "My heart's still broken but it's starting to heal." The program is scheduled for broadcast Friday, March 7, 1997. (AP Photo/Al Levine)

TV talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael and her husband of 34 years, Karl Soderland, discuss a point in the New York control room of her syndicated program, Oct. 21, 1997. He has been her manager since Raphael's early days in radio. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel)

Sally Jessy Raphael talks to John Ungerland, second left, a 17-year-old Columbine High School junior, during the taping of her program in New York, Tuesday April 27, 1999. Ungerland claims to have seen two youths, one armed, leaving the school during the shootings in Littleton, Colo. Tuesday April 20, 1999. Also on the show, scheduled to air Friday April 30, 1999, are from left, Trevor, a Goth, Matt Nalty, hidden, and Jim Brunetti, right. Nalty and Brunetti are two of three people detained by police who thought they were involved in the shootings. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Gilbert Gottfried, left, Sally Jessy Raphael and Cindy Adams pose in front of Broadway's "Rocky Horror Show" outside Circle in the Square in New York, Nov. 13, 2001. Over the next two months, each will step onto the stage to temporarily replace Dick Cavett as the narrator of "The Rocky Horror Show," the raucous musical based on the cult movie. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)

This photo taken Nov. 4, 2010 and provided by Harpo Productions Inc., shows former talk-show hosts, from left, Geraldo Rivera, Ricki Lake, Phil Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael and Montel Williams raising a glass to toast the 25th and final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" with Oprah Winfrey, center, during the taping of an episode of the program. The show will air nationally on Wednesday, Nov. 10. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions Inc., George Burns) **NO SALES**

In this publicity image released by The Wendy Williams Show, former talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael, left, talks with Wendy Williams, host of "The Wendy Williams Show," during a taping of the show on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 in New York. The program, which kicks off a tribute to talk show hosts, will air on Monday. (AP Photo/The Wendy Williams Show, Alex Oliveira)

404446 09: Talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael (R) welcomes comedian Dick Cavett to the taping of her last show April 24, 2002 in New York City. Her last show will air this May. (Photo by Jim Lord/Getty Images)

404446 01: Talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael (L) and her husband Karl Soderlund prepare to cut her cake, celebrating the taping of her last show April 24, 2002 in New York City. Her last show will air this May. (Photo by Jim Lord/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 10: TV Personality Sally Jesse Raphael and husband Karl Soderland attend the Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2003 Collection fashion show at the 26th Street Armory during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week February 10, 2003 in New York City. (Photo b

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 19: TV Personality Sally Jesse Raphael attends the "Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie" Premiere during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on April 19, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 23: Sally Jesse Raphael attends the VIP reception and viewing for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Brooklyn Museum on October 23, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

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Sally Jessy Raphael talks to radio listeners on Talknet at NBC Studios in New York City, Thursday, July 1, 1982. (AP Photo/David Handschuh)

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