Joan Rivers, the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America’s
obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and other blemishes of neurotic
life, including her own, in five decades of caustic comedy that propelled her
from nightclubs to television to international stardom, died on Thursday in
Manhattan. She was 81.
Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, confirmed her death. A
spokeswoman, Judy Katz, said the cause had not yet been determined.
Ms. Rivers died at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she had been
taken last Thursday from an outpatient surgery clinic after going into cardiac
arrestand losing consciousness, the authorities said. The State Health
Department is investigating the circumstances that led to her death, a state
official said Thursday.
Ms. Rivers had been in the clinic for a minor procedure on
her vocal cords, according to a spokesman. Her daughter said Tuesday that her
mother was on life support and Wednesday that she was out of intensive care.
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