Trivia

Was engaged to be married for a 4th time at the time of his death.

He and Teri Copley shared a daughter, Ashley Mayer, born in the early 1980s.

He was a lifelong Republican.

Interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.

Although he was no relation to movie magnate Louis B. Mayer, he admitted to being asked about this on many occasions.