Joan Alexandra Rosenberg (née Molinsky; June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), has died September 4, 2014, at the age of 81 after being in a coma. She was known as Joan Rivers, and was an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host. Rivers ran The Joan Rivers Show, which won her a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933, and was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman; January 6, 1906 – October 1975) and Meyer C. Molinsky (December 7, 1900 – January 1985). Rivers, was Jewish and was a member of the Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El in New York. Her first marriage was in 1955 to James Sanger,the marriage lasted six months and was annulled. Her second marriage was on July 15, 1965, to Edgar Rosenberg, who committed suicide in 1987. Their only child, Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (now known as Melissa Rivers), was born on January 20, 1968. Joan had one grandson, Melissa's son Cooper (born Edgar Cooper Endicott in 2000).
Please Pray for her Soul.
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