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Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital after experiencing complications during throat surgery being performed at a New York City Clinic. [28 August 2014].

Her older sister, Barbara Waxler, passed away on June 3, 2013 at age 82.

Attended the funeral of Ernest Borgnine, when the actor passed away in 2012.

Announced that she and her daughter, Melissa Rivers, were leaving E! Entertainment to fashion-bash red-carpet-wise over at the TV Guide Channel. They had been with E! Entertainment since 1996. [June 30, 2004].

Was one of the final guests to appear on The Wayne Brady Show (2002).

Hosted a daily talk show on WOR-AM radio in New York City from 1997 until 2002, syndicated to about 50 stations.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for portraying the title character, Sally Marr, in "Sally Marr... and Her Escorts".

She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1990 for best talk show host and was nominated for a Tony Award for the play "Donna Marr and Her Escorts" in 1994. She was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on July 26, 1989.

She was a writer and actress, known for Spaceballs (1987), Iron Man Three (2013) and Serial Mom (1994). She was married to Edgar Rosenberg and James Bennat Sanger.

About 1982, she was appointed the first permanent guest hostess on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She infuriated Johnny Carson when she left to host her own show, The Late Show (1986) on rival Fox network. Johnny Carson never spoke to her again.

She had her first cosmetic surgery procedure (an eye-lift) in 1965 at age 32.

Before she was a successful comedienne, actress, talk show hostess and a television personality, she was part of "Jim, Jake, and Joan", a comedic musical trio, in 1964.

Received her Bachelor's degree in English literature and anthropology from Barnard College in New York City (1954).

Early in her career, she was a writer for Candid Camera (1953).

Before she was a successful comedienne, actress, talk show hostess and a television personality, she performed as half of the comedy team of "Joanie and Bill". "Bill" was former actor William Perry (1936-2006) who was the nephew of actress Toby Wing.

Joan Rivers was born on June 8, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Joan Alexandra Molinsky.

Her father, Dr. Meyer C. Molinsky, who graduated from medical school at Long Island College and in the mid-1930s kept an office at 760 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, New York, historical records show.