The American actress, television host, comedian, writer and producer Joan Alexandra Molinsky will be more familiar to fans and television enthusiasts by her stage name – she is Joan Rivers, one of television’s most and controversial personalities, whose long career has earned her an estimated net worth of $150 million. Best known as a television show host, Joan Rivers has earned widespread recognition for her irreverent humour – which, despite attracting its share of criticism, secured Rivers a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990, as well as multiple nominations for other awards. Taking into account that Joan Rivers has also found considerable success as an author – having published no less than a dozen memoirs and humour books, many of which went on to be best-sellers – it is definitely not hard to see why Rivers’s net worth is as sizable as it is.
Joan Rivers Net Worth $150 Million
Born on 8 June 1933 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in the US, Joan Rivers grew up to the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. It was here that Rivers first picked up her trademark New Yorker accent, by which she is still recognizable to this day. Though her family moved out of New York later on, Joan Rivers would return in 1953 to attend the local Barnard College – and here that she would take her first steps into show business. Rivers’s first acting debut was in the late 1950s play “Driftwood”, where she appeared opposite the future American music legend, Barbra Streisand. Afterwards, Rivers continued to appear in various local theatre productions and comedy clubs, eventually attracting enough attention to land a guest role on the “NBC” talk show “The Tonight Show”.
“The Tonight Show” would turn out to be Joan Rivers’s ticket to fame. After a few appearances alongside legendary show host Jack Paar, Rivers was eventually invited back to the show as hosted by Johnny Carson. Rivers has been quoted crediting Carson with teaching her most of what she knows, going as far as referring to her time on “The Tonight Show” as a time when she was Johnny Carson’s daughter. Unfortunately, their long-standing friendship would come to an abrupt end when Joan Rivers landed a job with “Fox” that had her hosting “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” on the same timeslot as Carson’s “The Tonight Show”. While “The Late Show” would not bring Rivers much success, it did open the door for her to begin focusing on her own, independent projects, and these have been the mainstay of Rivers’s net worth throughout most of her career.
How rich is Joan Rivers? At the moment, Rivers’s net worth is believed to reach up to $150 million. Most of this considerable amount is owed to Joan Rivers’s long-standing success as a comedian, television host and writer. In addition to her time as the host of various popular television shows – including “The Joan Rivers Show” – Rivers has also found success as a writer, producing a number of best-selling autobiographical and humoristic books. Despite her advanced age, Joan Rivers continues to remain an active performer and host, and she currently hosts her own online talk show, “In Bed with Joan”.
Currently, Joan Rivers lives in Malibu, California, together with her daughter, Melissa Rivers.
