He then held a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship in poverty law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the summer of 1969 before being admitted to the New York State Bar later that year. While a law student, he held internships with the New York County District Attorney under crime-fighter Frank Hogan and Harlem Assertion of Rights (a community-based provider of legal services) before receiving his J.D. įollowing a series of jobs ranging from clothing salesman to short-order cook, Rivera enrolled at Brooklyn Law School in 1966. Afterwards, he transferred to the University of Arizona, where he received a B.S. Underneath, I came to realize, she was deeply embarrassed over what was a clumsy attempt at an ethnic cover-up.įrom 1961 to 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, where he was a member of the rowing team.
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"I just forgot how to spell it", she would say, and leave it at that. Whenever we asked about the inconsistencies, she would shrug shyly and joke her way out of it. Later, she would drop the pretense for my sister Sharon, only to pick it up again with the birth of my baby brother Craig. She did the same thing for my sister Irene. When I was born, my mother filled in my birth certificate with the name Gerald Riviera, adding an extra "i" to my father's surname. Rivera's family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and his mother took to spelling their surname as "Riviera" to avoid having bigotry directed at them. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York, where he attended West Babylon High School. Rivera was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a bar mitzvah ceremony. His mother was Jewish, while his father was Catholic. He has Puerto Rican ancestry through his father.
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Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman Octo– June 3, 2018) and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (Octo– November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively. Rivera hosted the news magazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports (in lieu of hosting At Large). He gained publicity with the live 1986 TV special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults. He hosted the tabloid talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Riviera July 4, 1943) is an American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel.
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