Before she was slinging crude insults on Fashion Police , she was actually a very lovely lady.
Her real name is Joan Alexandra Molinsky.
Before taking the stage name Joan Rivers she was a young, brash, struggling comedian from Brooklyn, NY.
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She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English.
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She worked as a fashion coordinator for Bond Clothing Store and as a publicist for Lord and Taylor.
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Her first marriage only lasted six weeks.
The marriage was annulled on the basis that Sanger did not want children and had not informed Rivers before the wedding.
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