Early Life
Rivers was born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg in Manhattan on January 20, 1968, the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg. She is of Jewish Russian descent on her mother's side and German on her father's side.
Rivers attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air and then The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in European History. She was a founding member of the Tabard Society, an off-campus secret society for women.
Rivers married horse trainer John Endicott in December 1998 at New York City's famed Plaza Hotel in an extravagant $3 million Dr. Zhivago-themed winter wonderland wedding. They divorced in 2003. She has one son from that marriage named Edgar Cooper Endicott (born on December 1, 2000) who features with Rivers and her mother in the reality show Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
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