NAMES IN THE NEWS : Glitch Hits Carson Support Suit

A “glitch” waylaid Joan (Jody) Carson’s efforts to get more money from former husband Johnny Carson.

Joan Carson, who married the comic in 1949 and was divorced from him in 1963, was trying to obtain $120,000 a year from Carson in court Tuesday. She said she cannot live on money he provides her under a 1970 agreement.

But Justice Phyllis Gangel-Jacob noted that Joan Carson, mother of Carson’s three sons, was married to ad executive Donald Buckley for about six years after she divorced the “Tonight” show host.

She married Buckley 15 days after signing the 1970 agreement that gives her $13,500 a year until 1999 whether she remarried or not.

The judge asked Joan Carson’s lawyer whether support “should survive remarriage.”

“She was remarrying three weeks later. It’s a little glitch in the case,” the judge said.

Lawyer Raoul Felder never answered the question, and the judge reserved decision.