Red carpet rolling out for Joan Rivers’ funeral: report
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images Flowers are positioned on Joan Rivers’ Hollywood Walk of Fame Star following news Thursday of the comedian’s death in New York. The New York City medical examiner’s office completed its autopsy of comedienne Joan Rivers as the investigation into her death after a routine medical procedure widened.
The “produce 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 Shape Department officials had already announced their own probe into the death of Rivers, who was taken off life support Thursday.
The 81-year-ancient Rivers was rushed to The Mount Sinai Hospital on Aug. 28 after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest at the Yorkville Endoscopy Focal point on E. 93rd St.
View Gallery Stars remember Joan RiversA city police detective stopped by the clinic around 10:20 a.m. Friday, ignoring reporters as he left.
The autopsy was related to the circumstances surrounding Rivers’ death, and not to her decades of celebrity as one of America’s most enduring comedic figures, according to a source.
Sources have told the Day after day News that the comedienne’s family was considering a lawsuit in Rivers’s sudden and shocking death.
Turgeon-Steffman / Splash News/Turgeon-Steffman / Splash News A mournful Melissa Rivers steps out of the High 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 questioned about the expression of like for her mother.
Melissa, 41, wore a white shirt, jeans and large dark sunglasses.
ERIC THAYER /REUTERS Melissa Rivers, left, was the only child of Joan Rivers, right. 
MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS The Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles honors the comedian on its marquee. 
Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP The comedian’s family is considering a lawsuit over her death, a source told the Day after day News. 
Richard Harbus/(Richard Harbus/for New York Dai Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, pictured, after she stopped breathing during a procedure at a clinic. 
Anthony DelMundo/New York Day after day News Yorkville Endoscopy has very high security like the guard standing at right, a patient said Friday, in the wake of Joan Rivers’ death.Previous Next
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Thirty blocks north, patients were in and out of the endoscopy focal point Friday morning — with most unflustered by its brush with mortality.
“I have nothing terrible 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.
Anthony DelMundo/New York Day after day News An NYPD Detective walks into Yorkville Endoscopy, where Joan Rivers’ heart stopped during a procedure. “Additional than that, you’d never know that this was where it happened,” she said.
Rivers was positioned 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 in anticipation of Rivers passed away.
View Gallery Remembering the life and career of Joan RiversA Sunday funeral at an East Side synagogue has been set, with a source indicating the family started plotting the sendoff shortly after Rivers’ death.
“The funeral arrangements are under way 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.
With Eric Badia
