[5][6] She had a brother, Roger, who committed suicide at a psychiatric institution in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 22 in 1962, while on leave from Harvard University for treatment of schizophrenia.

They quickly fell in love and, after only one year of studies at Columbia, Annenberg dropped out of school and married Weingarten at Inwood in 1960.

[2] She appeared on The Joan Rivers Show on the new Fox television network in 1986, alongside actresses Lucille Ball and Michele Lee.

As chairman and president of the Annenberg Foundation,[13] she donates the family name and fortune to philanthropic and charitable projects, largely to the benefit of Los Angeles County.

She is a supporter of the Harlem Children's Zone, the Ojai Foundation's "Council project" for inner-city kids, and the Ocean Alliance.

[2] She serves on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California,[14] home of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Her son Roger Weingarten, a resident of Devereux[18] in Santa Barbara, California, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15, like his namesake,[19][20] is not on the board.