The Late Show
1986
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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.
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,”...
Edgar Rosenberg was found dead room of the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia on August 15, 1987. Rosenberg reportedly overdosed on Valium, left a suicide note, and left three tapes with...
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...
PHILADELPHIA -- Edgar Rosenberg, 62, the husband of comedian Joan Rivers, died yesterday in his hotel room of an apparent drug overdose, and police said his death appeared to be a suicide....
Melissa, 51, was just a sophomore in college when her father, TV producer Edgar Rosenberg, died by suicide at age 62 in 1987.
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. In this podcast called ...
