Friday 5 September 2014

Red carpet rolling out for Joan Rivers' funeral, report says as New York medical examiner continues probe of death

Red carpet rolling out for Joan Rivers' funeral, report says as New York medical examiner continues probe of death

Guests at the comedian’s Sunday sendoff in Manhattan will walk a special crimson carpet before paying their final respects to the 81-year-old, US Weekly reported Friday. Earlier in the day, the New York City medical examiner’s office said an autopsy was inconclusive and additional studies would be made into the death of Rivers, who was taken off life support Thursday.

 
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, September 5, 2014, 12:01 PM
 
Updated: Friday, September 5, 2014, 5:57 PM
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The Manhattan funeral for Joan Rivers, who reported celebrities' award show fashion hits and misses, will have a red carpet in her honor.FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGESThe Manhattan funeral for Joan Rivers, who reported celebrities' award show fashion hits and misses, will have a red carpet in her honor.
Joan Rivers will get the red carpet treatment at her funeral.
Guests at her Sunday sendoff in Manhattan will walk a special crimson carpet before paying their final respects to the 81-year-old Rivers, US Weekly reported Friday.
The caustic comedian will then be buried along with the carpet outside Temple Emanu-El on the East Side, according to the magazine.
The wisecracking Rivers became infamous for her fashion critiques of celebrities walking the red carpet before Hollywood events like the Oscars and the Grammys.
Flowers are placed on Joan Rivers' Hollywood Walk of Fame Star following news Thursday of the comedian's death in New York.MARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAGESFlowers are placed on Joan Rivers' Hollywood Walk of Fame Star following news Thursday of the comedian's death in New York.
Daughter Melissa Rivers spent about 90 minutes inside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Friday working on the arrangements for Sunday’s farewell.
She returned in a black Cadillac Escalade to her E. 62nd St. townhouse around 1 p.m., telling reporters outside, “I’m alright.”
The city medical examiner completed its autopsy of Rivers as the widening investigation into her death after a routine medical procedure continued.
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The “cause and manner” of Rivers’ death will now be determined after additional studies, Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for the ME’s office, said Friday. The initial finding was inconclusive.
State Health Department officials had already announced their own probe into the death of Rivers, who was taken off life support Thursday.
Rivers was rushed to The Mount Sinai Hospital on Aug. 28 after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest at the Yorkville Endoscopy Center on E. 93rd St.
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A city police detective stopped by the clinic around 10:20 a.m. Friday, ignoring reporters as he left.
The autopsy was prompted only by the unusual circumstances surrounding Rivers’ death, according to a source.
Sources have told the Daily News that the comedian’s family was considering a lawsuit in Rivers’s sudden and shocking death.
A grieving Melissa Rivers steps out of the Upper East Side apartment owned by her mother, Joan Rivers, taking notice Friday of the flowers and cards left by fans.JB NICHOLAS FOR THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWSA grieving Melissa Rivers steps out of the Upper East Side apartment owned by her mother, Joan Rivers, taking notice Friday of the flowers and cards left by fans.
The late comic’s only child, daughter Melissa, emerged Friday morning from her apartment building on E. 62nd St. She walked past a dozen bouquets left by fans, and left in a waiting black SUV.
“It’s humbling,” she told reporters when asked about the outpouring of love for her mother.
Melissa, 41, wore a white shirt, jeans and large dark sunglasses.
Melissa Rivers, right, was the only child of Joan Rivers, left.
Melissa Rivers, right, was the only child of Joan Rivers, left.
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  • Comedienne Joan Rivers (L) and TV personality Melissa Rivers attend the Elie Tahari Fall/Winter 2011 collection show during New York Fashion Week in this file photo taken February 16, 2011. Acerbic comedian and fashion critic Joan Rivers was rushed to a New York hospital on August 28, 2014 after she stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal chords, reported NBC New York. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: FASHION ENTERTAINMENT)
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  • COMA- 08/29/2014- MANHATAN, NYThis is the scene outside Mt. Sinai Hospital in upper Manhattan. The media stand vigil in front waiting to hear word on Joan River's condition. TV stations do live stand ups. Rivers was put in a medically induced coma after her heart stopped at a clinic nearby.(Richard Harbus/for New York Daily News)
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  • Members of the NYPD enter Yorkville Endoscopy, where comedian Joan Rivers heart stops during a routine treatment for vocal problem, located at 201 East 93rd Street in Manhattan on Friday, September 5, 2014. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
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Thirty blocks north, patients were in and out of the endoscopy center Friday morning — with most unflustered by its brush with mortality.
“I have nothing bad to say about the place,” said patient Robert Grossman as he exited. “I trust my doctor. I wasn’t concerned at all.”
A woman with Grossman said security inside the clinic was very high.
An NYPD Detective walks into Yorkville Endoscopy, where Joan Rivers' heart stopped during a procedure.ANTHONY DELMUNDO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSAn NYPD Detective walks into Yorkville Endoscopy, where Joan Rivers' heart stopped during a procedure.
“Other than that, you’d never know that this was where it happened,” she said.
Rivers was placed in a medically induced coma hours after leaving the clinic, and wound up on life support by last weekend.
Her daughter, accompanied by other family members and friends, kept an eight-day bedside vigil until Rivers passed away. Funeral plans were in motion shortly after her death.
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“The funeral arrangements are underway and were going on late into the night and into the morning,” the source said Friday.
No details were yet made public. But Rivers, in one of her books, expressed her hopes for a Hollywood extravaganza at her funeral.
“Lights, cameras, action ... I want craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene,” Rivers wrote.
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