By the middle of the 1980s, television host and media mogul Merv Griffin was making retirement plans from his hit talk show, The Merv Griffin Show, which had been on the air for more than 20 years. The success of his production companies, Merv Griffin Enterprise and Merv Griffin Entertainment—responsible for creating the game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune—had made Griffin one of the wealthiest media moguls at that time with a net worth of $300 million.
About the same time, perhaps transitioning into a life of leisure, Griffin purchased a sprawling equestrian compound in La Quinta, California—just outside of Palm Springs. Before his death in 2007, the beloved talk show host selected a portion of his property to be turned into a master-planned equestrian community—aptly named Griffin Ranch.
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