Jon Bon Jovi Mourns the Loss of His Mother, Carol

Jon Bon Jovi is mourning the loss of his mother, Carol A. Bongiovi, who died on July 9 at age 83.

The singer confirmed his mother's death in a statement to People, saying on behalf of his family, "Our mother was a force to be reckoned with, her spirit and can-do attitude shaped this family. She will be greatly missed."

People noted that Carol died at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. just three days shy of her 84th birthday. A cause of death was not disclosed.

Carol met her husband, John Bongiovi Sr., while enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. She notably was also a Playboy bunny and founded the Bon Jovi fan club. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, their three sons and daughters-in-law and eight grandchildren.

In May, Jon Bon Jovi confirmed his son, Jake Bongiovi, and actress Millie Bobby Brown are officially married.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer told BBC's The One Show, "They're great. They're absolutely fantastic. It was a very small family wedding, and the bride looked gorgeous, and Jake is happy as can be."

Reports surfaced during the Memorial Day holiday weekend that the young couple tied the knot in a secret ceremony. However, there wasn't an official confirmation.

Days after they said "I do," People spotted the couple in the Hamptons on May 26, and both were wearing wedding bands on their ring fingers.

Jake, 22, and Millie, 20, announced their engagement in April 2023. Brown took to Instagram and shared a black-and-white photo of her being hugged by Bongiovi. In the photo, she's wearing a sizable diamond ring on her left ring finger. She captioned the photo with a lyric from the Taylor Swift song "Lover": "I've loved you three summers now, honey, I want 'em all." Meanwhile, Bongiovi shared a photo to Instagram with Brown and captioned it simply, "Forever."

The young couple were first rumored to be dating in Spring 2021.

Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea Hurley, eloped in Las Vegas in 1989. However, the two were famously high school sweethearts. Even though they married when they were older, JBJ can definitely relate to Jake and Millie's "young love."

Bon Jovi said of his son's engagement to Good Morning America, "It is an accelerated version of what I went through 40 years ago ... I've gotten to know [Millie] in the last year, she works really hard, and she and Jake will grow together in their own way."

Three of Jon and Dorothea's four children are in very serious relationship. People notes that oldest child/daughter, Stephanie, 30, is also engaged. The outlet also confirmed that second-born/son, Jesse, 29, and his longtime girlfriend, Jesse Light, actually eloped in Vegas on May 7 at the same chapel where Jon and Dorothea eloped.

Bon Jovi has been active for over four decades, and they aren't showing signs of slowing down.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career has netted them over 130 million albums sold worldwide and legions of fans spanning generations.

Narrowing down their catalog to a select number of songs and ranking them is a daunting task, but here are Bon Jovi's 35 best songs, ranked.

A new docuseries about Bon Jovi is set to premiere on Hulu on April 26. The docuseries is titled Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.

The docuseries also has the cooperation of all Bon Jovi members, both past and present. A teaser trailer of the docuseries offers a supercut of the band's wild career, including the exit of guitarist Richie Sambora.

Additionally, the teaser trailer shows Jon Bon Jovi in a hospital bed. He's holding a dry-erase board that simply says, "I'm good." Meanwhile, an unidentified voiceover says, "Jon's going through his challenges." It then cuts to JBJ saying, "It almost killed us."

The "challenges" appear to be about Bon Jovi's recent vocal issues, which he discussed during the Pollstar Live! conference in February 2024.

Per Ultimate Classic Rock, Bon Jovi said, "It's become public knowledge now, but I've had major reconstructive surgery in my vocal cords, and I never had anything like this, ever. So it's been a difficult road, but I found a doctor in Philadelphia who did something called a medialization, because one of my cords was literally atrophied."

A description of Thank You, Goodnight from Hulu also promises it will delve into the band's "most public moments of friction." Of course, this is likely a reference to the 2013 exit of Sambora, who has often talked about the potential of rejoining the band.