Billionaire Ted Turner, 86, Reveals Major Health Update After Hospitalization [Video]

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CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner was hospitalized due to pneumonia in January, and is now recovering in a rehab center in his home state of Florida.

A representative for the successful entrepreneur, 86, told TMZ that he had suffered from a “mild case of pneumonia,” but that he “expects a full recovery.”

This news comes six years after the legendary businessman, who founded CNN in addition to TNT and TBS, was diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia, the same disease that Robin Williams was diagnosed with before the actor committed suicide in 2014.

The National Institute on Agingdefines Lewy Body Dementia as “a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These …