Mary Jo Campbell, known as MJ Shannon and the mother of Kardashian-Jenner matriarch Kris Jenner, died on 26 July at age 91, just shy of her 92nd birthday. Kris Jenner announced the death on Thursday on social media, writing "Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ," and did not provide a cause of death. Campbell appeared on the family's reality programmes repeatedly since Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered in 2007 and later on The Kardashians, where her sassy one-liners and advice drew attention. She was born in 1934 and had two daughters, Kris Jenner and Karen Houghton; Karen Houghton died of cardiac arrest in March 2024 at age 65. The family celebrated Campbell's 90th birthday on The Kardashians with a floral hotel party in San Diego and marked her 91st birthday with a garden-themed celebration. Kris Jenner praised her mother for teaching that "family is everything" and for resilience and faith; Kim Kardashian called MJ "my best friend, my gossip buddy, my forever twin" and said MJ gave her her first job at a San Diego retail store. The family noted MJ survived cancer twice and said they will carry her lessons and values forward.
