Jerry Springer blew the lid off that idea," Phil Donahue said in a statement to PEOPLE. "He made it easier for guys like me to go a little farther. My heartfelt condolences to his family." ...

He also knew very little ... Jerry knew that his parents, Richard and Margo Springer, left Nazi Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War. But as is the case with many Jewish people ...

Jerry Springer has been laid to rest. Springer's longtime publicist Linda Shafran and family friend/spokesman Jene Galvin confirmed to PEOPLE that a private ceremony was held on Sunday in a suburb ...

Hayley: “And very little time to ... You have people talking about the detrimental effect on their mental health. The show taps into how Jerry Springer changed the culture” “I like that ...