Joan Rivers Will Leaves Assets to Trust

As I have previously discussed, some details of Joan Rivers’ will were released Tuesday after it was filed on December 5. However, many of the specific details including the exact amounts to be distributed were not made public due to the use of a living trust.

Rivers’ died on September 4, after she suffered from cardiac arrest during a medical procedure on August 28. Reports from the New York State Health Department and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed that there may have been some problems with the clinic’s care of Rivers, including that a staff member may have taken pictures of Rivers while she was under sedation, and that there were problems with the monitoring of Rivers’ vital signs. It is unknown if Rivers’ daughter will choose to file a lawsuit regarding her mother’s care.

See Aaron Katersky & Lesley Messer, Joan Rivers’ Will Revealed, Yahoo News, Dec. 9, 2014.

Special thanks to Laura Galvan (Attorney, San Antonio, Texas) for bringing this article to my attention.