Geraldo Rivera Biography
Geraldo Rivera is a former television anchor, journalist, attorney, author, political pundit, and political commentator from the United States. From 1987 until 1998, he presented the tabloid discussion show, Geraldo. With the live TV spectacular The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults, he garnered notoriety.
Geraldo Rivera Age
Rivera is 78 years old as of 2021. He was born on 4 July 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Geraldo Rivera Height
Rivera stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.76 m).
Geraldo Rivera Family
Rivera was born in Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, to Lillian Rivera, a restaurant worker, and Cruz “Allen” Rivera, a cab driver. Through his father, he has Puerto Rican ancestry. His mother is a devout Jew, whereas his father is a devout Catholic. Rivera had a bar mitzvah ceremony and was reared “basically Jewish.” He attended West Babylon High School in West Babylon, New York, where he grew up. Rivera’s family faced intolerance and racism on occasion, so his mother changed their surname to “Riviera” to avoid being the target of hate.
Geraldo Rivera Wife and Children
Rivera has been married five times and has a daughter with his current wife, Erica Michelle Levy. Linda Coblentz from 1965 to 1969, Edith Vonnegut from December 14, 1971, to 1975, Sherryl Raymond from December 31, 1976, to 1984, with whom he had a son Gabriel Miguel in July 1979, and C.C. (Cynthia Cruickshank) Dyer from July 11, 1987, to 2000. He has two daughters from his marriage to (Cynthia: Isabella Holmes, born in 1992, and Simone Cruickshank, born in 1994, as well as six more IVF efforts that resulted in miscarriage.
Geraldo Rivera Education
He was a member of the rowing squad at the State University of New York Maritime College in the Throggs Neck area of the Bronx from 1961 to 1963. He then proceeded to the University of Arizona, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1965. Rivera enrolled in Brooklyn Law School in 1966 and received his J.D. in 1969, near the top of his class.
He interned with the New York County District Attorney under crime-fighter Frank Hogan and the Harlem Assertion of Rights while a law student. Rivera became an attorney for the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican activist group centered in East Harlem, New York City. When Rivera was interviewed about the group’s occupation of a neighborhood church, WABC-TV news director Al Primo noticed their work. Primo offered Rivera a job as a reporter, but he didn’t like the moniker “Gerald,” so they agreed to use the pronunciation used by Rivera’s family from Puerto Rico: Geraldo.
Geraldo Rivera Talkshows
Rivera began producing and anchoring Geraldo, a daytime discussion program that aired for 11 years, in 1987. His show featured provocative guests and theatricality, earning him the moniker “Trash TV” from Newsweek and two United States senators. Rivera’s nose was smashed in a well-publicized battle in 1988 during a program with white supremacists, anti-racist skinheads, black activist Roy Innis, and militant Jewish activists as guests.
Rivera anchored Rivera Live, a weeknight CNBC evening news and interview show, from 1994 to 2001. Rivera appeared in the Seinfeld finale in 1998 as himself. Rivera voiced newscaster Morty Williams in the episode “Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!” for Phineas and Ferb in 2009.
Geraldo Rivera Salary
Rivera earns an annual salary of around $2.5 million.
Geraldo Rivera Net Worth
Rivera has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Geraldo Rivera Politics
Rivera is a Republican who is considering running for the United States Senate in the 2013 special election in New Jersey. He ultimately decided not to run for office. Despite being a buddy of Donald Trump, Rivera has acknowledged that he did not vote for the Republican candidate in 2016 due to “spousal interference.” He had previously stated that he would not vote for Trump due to the latter’s remarks toward Mexicans. Rivera pondered running for the United States Senate in Ohio in 2022 when incumbent Senator Rob Portman announced his decision not to seek re-election. He ultimately decided against it.
Geraldo Rivera Fox Career
Rivera was mocked in 2001, during the Afghan War, for a report in which he claimed to be at the scene of a friendly fire incident. He said two days later that he would be reporting from Kuwait on the Iraq conflict. Rivera got into a spat with The New York Times in 2005 because they claimed he pushed a member of a rescue squad aside to film “assisting” a woman in a wheelchair. Geraldo Rivera began presenting a daily radio talk program on WABC (770 AM) in New York, New York, on January 3, 2012. On March 23, 2012, he made remarks about Trayvon Martin’s hoodie and how it was linked to Martin’s death by gunfire. Rivera reported on November 13, 2015 that his daughter, Simone Cruickshank, was at the Stade de France at the time of the attacks.
Geraldo Rivera teamed with professional dancer Edyta Liwiska in season 22 of Dancing with the Stars. Rivera supported Matt Lauer, who was ousted by NBC amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, on November 29, 2017. His 1991 book “Exposing Myself,” which boasted about his lively social life in the 1960s and 1970s, sparked some criticism. After a reporter questioned Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell’s claims of assisting Jeffrey Epstein in trafficking and abusing children, Rivera labeled Trump “brave” for wishing her “well.” “When was the last time you were in the ghetto?” Rivera questioned fellow contributor Leo Terrell during a discussion about St. Louis mayor-elect Tishaura Jones. Rivera got into a shouting match with Dan Bongino over the 2021 Israel–Palestine issue on May 20, 2021.
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