Funeral will get Red Carpet treatment
Us Weekly reports there will be a crimson carpet for guests to walk before paying their final respects to Rivers during her Sunday funeral. The carpeting outside the Temple Emanu-El on the East Side will be buried with Rivers. Rivers is known for making fashion critiques of celebrities on red carpet Hollywood events.
Melissa Rivers spent 90 minutes inside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Friday working on the final arrangements. When asked how she is doing:
I’m all right.
In induced coma
Rivers is in a medically-induced coma at St. Sinai Hospital in New York. Melissa Rivers:
Mom is resting comfortably.
Rushed to hospital in critical condition
Rivers is hospitalized after she stops breathing during throat surgery at Yorkville Endoscopy clinic on East 93rd Street, New York. She is rushed to Mount Sinai hospital after a 911 caller reports somebody in either cardiac or respiratory arrest. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers is by her side. Hospital spokesman Sid Dinsay:
This morning, Joan Rivers was taken to The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she is being attended to. Her family wants to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and support. We will provide an update on her condition as it becomes available.
Melissa Rivers born in New York
Melissa Warburg Rosenberg is born in Manhattan. She is the only child to Rosenberg and Joan Rivers. She takes her Mom’s stage name “Rivers” in 1990.