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Burnett and daughter Jody had osteotomies surgically performed in the early 1980s to relieve recurring headaches and improve her chin and overbite.
Burnett was a recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors at the age of 70.
Burnett was named the Grand Marshal of the 1998 Tournament of Roses Parade.
In 1981, Burnett successfully sued the National Enquirer for libel after the tabloid newspaper described her alleged public drunkenness. The case was a landmark for libel cases involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict for Burnett was reduced to about $200,000 on appeal, and eventually settled out of court.
In November 1998, she donated materials relating to "The Carol Burnett Show" to the archives at UCLA
Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1985.
Named Jack Benny Humanitarian of the year by the March of Dimes in 1982.
President George W. Bush awarded Burnett the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.
Received an honorary doctrate of humane letters from Emerson College of Boston in 1980.
She was given the International Radio and Television Society's Gold Medal (1984).
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