New York (AFP) - Joan Rivers, the tart-tonged US stand-up comic renown for her rapier wit and ruthless one-liners, was rushed to hospital in New York on Thursday in a critical condition, reports said. US media said the 81-year-old Rivers stopped breathing while undergoing surgery on her vocal chords at a clinic in New Yorks Upper East Side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. A spokesman for the New York Fire Department told AFP that officers responded to an emergency call at 9:39 am (1339 GMT) after a woman suffered a possible cardiac arrest. The patient was taken from 201 East 93rd Street, the address of Yorkville Endoscopy clinic, to Mount Sinai, he said. The hospital refused to comment, citing patient privacy. Celebrity news site TMZ said Rivers was in critical condition after she stopped breathing during surgery on her throat and that her daughter Melissa was on her way to New York. Rivers earlier this week filmed a special 90-minute episode of her E! TV show Fashion Police and has a string of appearances scheduled in the coming weeks, followed by a UK tour in October. Born in Brooklyn and a long-time New York resident, Rivers has spared no one her razor-sharp wit and is considered one of the best at delivering a cutting one-liner with a well-timed zinger. The nature of her surgery on Thursday was not immediately clear. In recent decades, she has been well-known for her love of multiple plastic surgeries, taken to excess with her exaggerated cheek bones and her preternaturally wrinkle-free face. Born Joan Alexandra Molinsky, she graduated from New Yorks Barnard College and worked in the fashion industry before starting out in stand-up under the stage name Joan Rivers.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:53:26 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015