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The life of Joan Rivers
The life of Joan Rivers
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September 2, 2014, 8:14 PM
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Comedian Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81.
Robin Williams , Joan Rivers
US actors and comedians Joan Rivers and Robin Williams backstage at the Wimbledon Theatre after a charity performance in aid of the Prince's Trust charity, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.The event is one of a number to celebrate the Prince's 60th birthday on Nov. 14. Both Williams and Rivers took part in the show. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant POOL)
AP Photo/Alastair Grant POOL
Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman
Joan Rivers, left, and Sarah Silverman are seen on stage at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Joan Rivers Show
Performers Tom and Roseanne Arnold match tattoos with host Joan Rivers during taping of the "Joan Rivers Show" Monday, Jan.18, 1993 in New York. Arnold wears a tattoo of his comedienne-wife, Roseanne wears a rose and Rivers sports a removable tattoo likeness of all three. (AP Photo/Joe Tabacca)
AP Photo/Joe Tabacca
Fashion Badgley Mischka Fall 2012 Backstage
Television personality and entertainer Joan Rivers tours backstage with her camera crew before the Badgley Mischka Fall 2012 collection is shown during Fashion Week in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
AP Photo/John Minchillo
GOLDEN GLOBES
Joan Rivers, right and daughter Melissa Rivers joke on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian
Joan Rivers
Comedian, talk-show host and power shopper Joan Rivers takes on a new role as she applies makeup prior to a rehearsal in New York on Thursday, April 7, 1994. Rivers is preparing for her return to Broadway in, ?Sally Marr and her escorts.? The play, directed by Lonny Price, is the true story of the burlesque comic Sally Marr who was also the mother of controversial comedian Lenny Bruce. It is scheduled to open on May 5. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
AP Photo/Ed Bailey
Joan Rivers, Melissa Rosenberg
Joan Rivers dabs her nose as she and her daughter, Melissa Rosenberg, appear at a news conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1987 at which Rivers said she will file a $50 million libel suit against Gentlemen?s Quarterly magazine and the author of an article in which she was quoted as having wished her late husband, Edgar Rosenberg, dead. (AP Photo/Alison Wise)
AP Photo/Alison Wise
Rivers Adams 1991
New York Post columnist Joey Adams gets a birthday kiss from comedienne Joan Rivers at his 80th birthday celebration at the Helmsley Hotel in New York, Jan. 8, 1991. (AP Photo/Mark Phillips)
AP Photo/Mark Phillips
Joan Rivers
Comedian Joan Rivers reacts after presented with a frying pan, honoring her with the ?First Instant Pudding Award University?s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Tuesday, June 3, 1986 in Cambridge. Rivers, who received the original Pudding Award in 1984, was in Cambridge, Massachusetts to promote her new book in a square bookstore. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers
TV personalities Melissa, left, and Joan Rivers pose for a portrait Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
AP Photo/Jeff Christensen
Joan Rivers 1986
Comedian Joan Rivers and Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., arrive for news conference in Los Angeles to announce that she will host a live talk show on Fox Broadcasting Co. that will compete with late night king Johnny Carson, May 6, 1986. Miss Rivers will lead the attack for Fox Broadcasting Corp's new fourth network. (AP Photo/Jim Ruymen)
AP Photo/Jim Ruymen
Joan Rivers
Comedienne Joan Rivers poses next to her new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 26, 1989. She was honored for her contributions to the world of entertainment, specifically television. (AP Photo/Doug Sheridan)
AP Photo/Doug Sheridan
RIVERS
Comedienne Joan Rivers talks about her upcoming Broadway play, "Fun City," in New York City, Nov. 4, 1971. Rivers will star in the play, which she co-wrote. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers And Friends 1986
Performers on the first episode of "The Late Show" pose with star Joan Rivers, Oct. 9, 1986. From left: Elton John, Joan Rivers, Cher, and Pee Wee Herman. (AP Photo/Galbraith)
AP Photo/Galbraith
TOM JONES BIRTHDAY 1974
British singer Tom Jones, centre, blows out candles at a surprise birthday party at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, June 6, 1974. Guests include, from left to right, Joan Rivers, Sonny Bono, Jones, Debbie Reynolds, and Liberace. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers
In this photograph taken by AP Images for Bravo, Joan Rivers appears on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" show on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in New York. (Peter Kramer/AP Images for Bravo)
Peter Kramer/AP Images for Bravo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Mourners embrace as they arrive at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers, Don King
Joan Rivers waves one of Don King's flags on the red carpet of the Friars Club's Testimonial Dinner honoring Larry King in New York, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
AP Photo/Charles Sykes
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers attends "Howard Stern's Birthday Bash", presented by SiriusXM, at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
In this Sunday, July 26, 2009 file photo, Joan Rivers greets the audience at the "Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers" in Los Angeles. Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28, after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Joan Rivers Funeral
Sarah Jessica Parker, center right, speaks with attendees after a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Actor Matthew Broderick departs a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Carolina Herrera arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Rosie O'Donnell speaks with attendees as she leaves a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott walk to a waiting car after the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers-Funeral
Former television anchor and host Barbara Walters arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Howard Stern
Howard Stern, center, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Howard Stern
Kelly Osbourne, center, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Donald Trump
Donald Trump arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Bagpipers march out the doors of Temple Emanu-El after the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
Joan Rivers Funeral
Bagpipers march from the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
AP Photo
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