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[JoyFilled Warrior]

"Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Daughter Lucie Posts Rare Photo of Her Brother Desi Jr.: 'Alive and Well'"   (Mon, August 5, 2024)

"Lucille Ball's son Desi Arnaz Jr. is making a rare appearance on social media.

On Saturday, Aug. 3, Lucie Arnaz, 73, posed with her brother, 71, in two photos shared among a carousel of images on Instagram as the pair attended a family dinner while in Las Vegas for STLV: The 58-Year Mission.

"With our special guest, my recalcitrant brother, Desi Arnaz, Jr.!!! Desi is alive and well, my friends- just likes to stay a bit 'undercover,' " Lucie added.

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Desi Jr. has kept himself out of the spotlight in recent years after the death of his wife, Amy Arnaz, to cancer on Jan. 23, 2015. She was 63.

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Meanwhile, Lucie and Desi Jr.'s parents divorced in 1960, and though it was difficult in the beginning, the two remained close.

"They loved each other until the end," Lucie told PEOPLE in 2022 of Lucille and Desi, referring to their deaths in 1989 and 1986, respectively.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem played the Hollywood power couple in the 2021 film Being the Ricardos, with the family's lives also being explored in a documentary directed by Amy Poehler titled Lucy and Desi, which was released the following year in 2022." (ref:  ->

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  "Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Daughter Lucie Posts Rare Photo of Her Brother Desi Jr.: 'Alive and Well'"

[Queen of shop]

Aww. That's so sad. I had no idea that Desi Jr. lost his wife. I remenber when he was in the group, Dino Desi & Billy.

Poor guy. I feel for him.

Thanks for posting this.

[I am still oxox]

Saw her staring in Annie Get Your Gun at the Jones Beach Theater when I was a preteen

[Love my grandkids]

@JoyFilled Warrior Your writing style was easy for me to know it was you under ALL your nicknames.

[Shelbelle]

I saw her starring in the musical, Seesaw in 1973, she was terrific!!!

[Shelbelle]

How many of us here remember the night Desi Jr was born on I Love Lucy in Jan 1953? Lucy had a planned  C section in real life same night as his birth aired on TV. 

Of course we dont remember it when it aired in 1953, but hundreds of times in reruns

[Shelbelle]

Lucy kept her kids under a very watchful eye, that is why she used them as her costars when they were teens, just so she could keep her eye on them. 

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@JoyFilled Warrior Your writing style was easy for me to know it was you under ALL your nicknames.

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Hi     @Love my grandkids  

I'll take that as compliment.

In that case, it's the NICEST thing you've ever said to me!

                 

[spiderw]

It is so nice to see a current picture of Luci and Desi Jr., The I Love Lucy show was and is still so funny and has spanned decades. Like the Honeymooners, it is timeless comedy. Thanks for posting.

[JoyFilled Warrior]