This is Joyce, Richards wife, Lapinsky wrote on her husbands X page.

Thank you for your loving tributes.

He would be beyond thrilled and so touched, as am I.

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Richard Lewis and Joyce Lapinsky attend HBO’s Post Emmy Reception in 2018Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

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This is Joyce, Richards wife.

Thank you for your loving tributes.

He would be beyond thrilled and so touched, as am I.

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According to People, Lewis and Lapinsky met in 1998 at a Ringo Starr album release party.

In 2004, they were engaged.

They married the following year.

God bless, Richard Lewis peace and love to Joyce peace and love.

The reference is to Eleanor Keaton, the wife of Buster who was his biggest champion.

Keaton had his EleanorI have my Joycepic.twitter.com/jGJe7NHHkk

The parallels arent hard to see.

The duo connected only after Lewis had achieved his hard-won sobriety from drugs and alcohol.

In 2010,he saidof their relationship, Ive found peace and serenity.