As a result, his three children with Duke — Emilio Owen, 33 (Kenya’s son from a previous relationship, whom Gary adopted), Austin Owen, 23, and Kennedy Owen, 21 — stopped speaking to him.

As a result, his three children with Duke — Emilio Owen, 33 (Kenya’s son from a previous relationship, whom Gary adopted), Austin Owen, 23, and Kennedy Owen, 21 — stopped speaking to him.

Gary Owens, the droll, mellifluous-voiced announcer on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and a familiar part of radio, TV and movies for more than six decades, has died. He was 80.

Owens, 80, died Thursday at home in Encino. The cause was complications from the long-fought diabetes, said his son, Chris. In 1967, when he had a popular Los Angeles radio show, a chance meeting ...