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Rosenberg reportedly overdosed on Valium, left a suicide note, and left three tapes with messages he recorded on them. One was for Joan, one for his daughter, and one for his business manager.
Aug 20, 1987 · On the recording, Rosenberg explained that his failing health, beginning with a massive heart attack in 1984, made him feel he was a “burden to the people he loved” and that he “couldn’t go on,”...
Feb 20, 2019 · The tragic 1987 suicide of her father, Edgar Rosenberg, who suffered from depression, cemented Melissa’s commitment to mental health causes early in her life. “I was a teenager when my father ...
In August 1987, several months after Fox fired him and Rivers, Rosenberg died by suicide, overdosing on prescription drugs in a Philadelphia hotel room. He had been clinically depressed, which Rivers believed was brought on by medication he had been taking since a heart attack in 1984.
Aug 14, 1987 · Edgar Rosenberg, the husband and manager of comedian Joan Rivers, died today in his hotel room of an apparent drug overdose suicide, police said. He was 63.
May 1, 2019 · At the age of just 19, Melissa Rivers lost her father, Edgar Rosenberg, to suicide. Thirty-two years later, Melissa talks about life after suicide with Dr. Jennifer Ashton.
May 1, 2019 · Edgar died by suicide in 1987, which drove a wedge between Melissa and her late mother, comedian Joan Rivers. His suicide also left his wife and daughter in a financial crisis. “She never let go of the anger, and she used to tell people she was angry,” Rivers said.