Lies My Mother Told Me

Melissa Warburg Rosenberg was born on January 20, 1968 in Manhattan. She is the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg. She attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air and then The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a degree in European History in 1989. As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, and Silk Stalkings, The Comeback.In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease.

In the early 1990s, she branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows. With her mother, she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, they left her red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and 8 million. In 2015 her book The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation made The New York Times Best Seller List.

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