Melissa Rivers

At 56 years old, Melissa Rivers has this physical status:

Melissa Warburg Rosenberg (previously Endicott; born January 20, 1968), also known as Melissa Rivers, is an American actress and television presenter.

She is Joan Rivers and producer Edgar Rosenberg's only child.

Early life

Melissa Warburg Rosenberg was born in New York City on January 20, 1968. She is Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg's only child. She spent the majority of her childhood in Los Angeles, California. She attended the John Thomas Dye School, Marlborough School, and The Buckley School. Rivers first began dancing at the age of 8, with once-a-week group lessons. She became more aware of the sport at the age of 12, taking private lessons on a regular basis.

Rivers attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989. Edgar Herbert, her father, committed suicide in her second year of college. She took on her mother's stage surname in 1990, and then became known as Melissa Rivers.

Personal life

In December 1998, Rivers married horse trainer John Endicott at the Plaza Hotel in New York City for a $3 million wedding. In 2003, they divorced. Joan Knows Best is the son of that marriage, Edgar Cooper Endicott (born in 2000) who was on the radio with Rivers and her mother in Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best. She had been in a relationship with sports coach Jason Zimmerman from 2008 to 2011.

Rivers filed a negligence lawsuit against the clinic and doctors who performed surgery on her mother, causing her death on January 26, 2015.

Rivers was in a working relationship with talent agent Mark Rousso from 2015 to 2021.

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Career

As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills 90210, Silk Stalkings and The Comeback. In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease, a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson. She and her mother, Joan Rivers, portrayed themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story.

In the early 1990s, she branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows. Rivers, who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E! Network, has hosted two of the channel's highest-rated specials: Oh Baby! Melissa’s Guide to Pregnancy and Oh Toddler! Surviving the Early Years (aired in January 2002).

With her mother, she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, they left the red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and $8 million. Also in 2003, she appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. She has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight.

In 2013, she was a co-creator and co-producer of Joan's YouTube web series In Bed With Joan, a 15- to 30-minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviewed a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joan's bed, with Melissa conducting interview questions for the last several minutes. Featured videos that have garnered the most views featured comedians Kathy Griffin, Sarah Silverman, and Margaret Cho, television personalities Kelly Osbourne and RuPaul, as well as Youtubers Jenna Mourey (Jenna "Marbles"), Grace Helbig ("itsgrace") and Justine Ezarik ("iJustine"). Other guests included Russell Peters, Gary Busey, Rob Delaney, Gabriel Iglesias, Carmen Electra, Lance Bass, Howie Mandel, Chris Hardwick, Bill Engvall, Tom Green, Penn Jillette, Aisha Tyler, Anthony Jeselnik, Nick Kroll and T.J. Miller. In 2013, Melissa and Joan were honored by the Ride of Fame and a double decker tour bus was dedicated to them.

On August 31, 2015, Fashion Police began featuring Rivers as a co-host.

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