NEW YORK - About 100 spectators, and at least as many media lined the streets outside Temple Emanu-El on New York's Upper East Side Sunday awaiting the start of Joan Rivers' funeral.
In her 2012 book I Hate Everyone... Starting With Me, Rivers wrote that she wanted a red carpet and sobbing Meryl Streep at her funeral. So far, there were no sightings of either, as police worked the crowds telling TV stations to get rid of their lights and show their credentials.
The funeral services will be private and neither the temple nor Rivers' personal publicist would give further details or divulge a guest list. It was not even known what time the funeral would start.
Rivers died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she was rushed after she stopped breathing during surgery on her vocal cords at an endoscopy clinic on Aug.28.
'It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers,' Melissa Rivers said in a statement. 'She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother.
'Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support, and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated. My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.'
Rivers, who was actively flogging her latest humor book this year, was making headlines up to the last minute, raising eyebrows, as she had so many times in the past, with jokes and remarks viewed as insensitive, unfunny or politically incorrect.
She joked about the Holocaust and the Haiti earthquake, recently suggested Michelle Obama is 'transgender' and stormed out of a CNN interview in a rage after seeming to misunderstand the questions.
Mostly, she didn't apologize, or only grudgingly. Rivers, who had more than 2 million Twitter followers, didn't believe she went too far. 'Life is tough. Life is tough. I just think, 'Make them laugh,' ' she told USA TODAY in a recent interview.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, Julie Bolcer, said that an initial autopsy did not establish a clear cause of death and that more tests, such as toxicology, still have to be completed, the Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, an investigation of the clinic where Rivers was taken ill, the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic, was launched by state health officials, who aren't commenting on what they're looking at.
Contributing: Maria Puente, the Associated Press
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