Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and former television host. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. He has written several books, including “The Godfather: A Biography of a Murderer” He is married to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and former television host. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. He gained popularity with the live TV special The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults. Rivera also hosts the news magazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports, and appears regularly on Fox News programs such as The Five. Rivera is a Stateside Puerto Rican; his father was a Puerto Rican Catholic, and his mother was of Russian Jewish descent. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York, where he attended West Babylon High School. Rivera’s family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism; his mother took to spelling their surname as \”Riviera\” to avoid having bigotry directed at them. He was raised \”mostly Jewish\” and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He is a graduate of the State University of New York Maritime College where he was a member of the rowing team. Rivera was hired by WABC-TV in 1970 as a reporter for Eyewitness News. In 1972, he garnered national attention and won a Peabody Award for his report on the neglect and abuse of patients with intellectual disabilities at Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School. In July 1973, Rivera taped the pilot episode of Good Night America, a late-night newsmagazine program that he hosted from April to June 1974. The show tackled controversial topics of the era, including marijuana usage and the Vietnam War draft dodgers.
On May 19, 1983, Rivera broadcast the first U.S. network television mention of the historic Zapruder film. He interviewed Gregory Gregory and Dick Groden Jden on the national telecast of the film 2020. All 33 episodes of Good night America may be viewed and downloaded here and can be downloaded here. He has written several books, including “The Godfather: A Biography of a Murderer” and “Gerald Rivera: A Memoir of a Journalist, A Lawyer, A Politician, A Man, and a Politician” He is married to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He and his wife have three children. They have a son, Craig, a daughter, and two step-daughters. The couple has a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom were born in New York and live in Los Angeles, California. Rivera has been married to Barbara Rivera since 1998 and has two sons, Craig and Craig Rivera, who are both attorneys. He also has a daughter named Irene, who was born in 2002 and is a third-place financier in the New York Stock Exchange. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. He currently lives in Queens, New Jersey and lives with his family in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He works as an attorney for the Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, eventually precipitating his entry into private practice. His wife is a lawyer for the Community Action for Legal Services.
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