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  2. Oct 16, 2014 · -- Joan Rivers died in a New York City hospital Sept. 4 at the age of 81. Now, there are some answers for what happened. Rivers was sedated with propofol before she died of low blood oxygen during a procedure to treat voice changes and acid reflux, according to the New York City medical examiner.

  3. Sep 4, 2014 · Trailblazing comedian Joan Rivers has died in hospital a week after going into medical distress during a throat operation. She was 81. Rivers died early Thursday afternoon surrounded by...

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    Born Joan Molinsky in Brooklyn in 1933, her family moved to the suburbs of Westchester, N.Y. when she was nine. The daughter of a physician, she graduated from Barnard College, and after a brief turn as a copywriter among other jobs, she embarked on a stage career that involved dramatic plays and, increasingly, comedy. 1. On mobile? See Rick Mercer...

    Rivers tried branching out by writing and directing the 1978 male pregnancy tale The Rabbit Teststarring Billy Crystal, but the film was not a success. The relationship was irreparably damaged when she bolted for her own show on the Fox network in 1986. Carson's representatives claimed he was irate that Rivers never called him before or after the n...

    Rivers said in recent years she wouldn't have enjoyed a career without Edgar Rosenberg's machinations. Their marriage, predictably, was fair game for stage material (Sample: "Last night I asked my husband what's his favourite position, and he said, 'Next door.'") The redoubtable Rivers rebuilt her career. She had already signed on as a Hollywood Sq...

    Whatever her ambitions to be respected as a serious artist, Rivers never shied away from populist fare. In 1994, she began a two-decade run carving up the fashion stylings of celebrities at awards shows, for the most part on E! Network. The catty red carpet criticisms would go on to form the basis of a regular show, Fashion Police. Those developmen...

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  4. Sep 5, 2014 · CNN — Comedian Joan Rivers lost her life after having an apparently minor elective procedure at a Manhattan medical clinic last week. The routine surgery was on her throat, according to the...

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  5. Sep 5, 2014 · Joan Rivers died this past Thursday after spending a week in the hospital following a cardiac arrest. There was a lot of confusion on what procedure she was having done at a local New York City clinic and what the circumstances were surrounding her death.

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  6. Sep 5, 2014 · Comedian Joan Rivers died in a New York hospital Thursday afternoon, a week after suffering cardiac arrest during a medical procedure, her daughter said.

  7. Sep 4, 2014 · Joan Rivers, the acerbic comedian, Emmy-winning TV host, red-carpet fashion critic and “celebreality” star, died Thursday in New York City following complications from surgery last week.

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