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Comedian Joan Rivers

Pioneering female stand-up comic and TV host was the queen of "Can We Talk?" gossip.

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Joan Rivers greets the audience at the "Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers" in Los Angeles in 2009.

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Joan Rivers appears on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Aug. 4, 2014.

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"Fashion Police" hosts Joan Rivers and Kelly Osbourne pose at an event in New York in May 2014.

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Joan Rivers poses with her daughter Melissa Rivers in 2013. Joan leads a panel on "Fashion Police" that critiques celebrity style choices. Melissa is a co-executive producer and occasional panelist as well.

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From left, Martha Stewart, Joan Rivers and Star Jones attend a show at New York's Fashion Week in 2013.

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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani laughs as entertainer Joan Rivers carries a pile of clothing to a cash register at Macy's to kick off the start of the elimination of sales tax on clothing in New York City in 2000.

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Dolly Parton appears on "The Joan Rivers Show" in 1993.

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A subdued Joan Rivers makes her first television appearance since the August death of her husband in Pasadena, Calif., during the 39th Annual Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, on Sept. 21, 1987.

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Joan Rivers, right, on ?The Tonight Show?  with one of her Halloween guests, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) as herself in Los Angeles on Oct. 31, 1985. (AP Photo) No Sales

Guest host Joan Rivers talks with Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) on "The Tonight Show" on Halloween night 1985.

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Joan Rivers leaves the hospital with daughter Melissa in January 1968. The father is TV producer Edgar Rosenberg.

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