1. Melissa Rivers is the only child of comedian Joan Rivers and producer Edgar Rosenberg.
20 Facts About Melissa Rivers
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Melissa Rivers is the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg.
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Melissa Rivers spent the majority of her childhood in Los Angeles, California.
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Melissa Rivers attended the John Thomas Dye School, Marlborough School, and The Buckley School.
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Melissa Rivers first started dancing at the age of 8, taking once-a-week group lessons.
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Melissa Rivers became more serious about the activity at the age of 12, taking regular private lessons.
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Melissa Rivers attended the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1989 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history.
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Melissa Rivers has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight.
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In 2013, she was a co-creator and co-producer of Joan's YouTube web series In Bed with Joan, a 15- to 30-minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviewed a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joan's bed, with Melissa Rivers conducting interview questions for the last several minutes.
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Melissa Rivers raised $100,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, resulting from ABC's 2006 television show I'm a Celebrity.
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On June 24,2008, Melissa Rivers appeared on the NBC game show Celebrity Family Feud as part of the Melissa Rivers Family Team.
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Melissa Rivers appeared on the NBC reality television program Celebrity Apprentice playing for the Lili Claire Foundation.
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Melissa Rivers was fired in the episode that aired April 26,2009, after which she stormed out of the boardroom, verbally assaulted teammates Annie Duke and Brande Roderick, yelled at the production crew, and refused the obligatory exit interview.
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Melissa Rivers's mother was a contestant on that season of The Apprentice, and threatened to quit the show after Melissa's firing, but remained and ultimately won the competition.
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Melissa Rivers raised $22,250 on a special celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where all the celebrities played to raise money for the research of Alzheimer's disease.
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Melissa Rivers married horse trainer John Endicott in December 1998, at New York City's Plaza Hotel in a $3 million wedding.
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In January 2015, Melissa Rivers filed a malpractice lawsuit against the clinic and doctors who performed surgery on her mother that caused her death.
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From 2015 to 2021, Melissa Rivers was in a relationship with talent agent Mark Rousso.
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In 2022 Melissa Rivers met attorney Steve Mitchel at a Didi Hirsch Mental Health and Suicide Prevention event.
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Melissa Rivers served as a Co-Chairman of the organization's board of directors and Mitchel was accompanying a friend.