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How Nancy Reagan Helped Joan Rivers Get Her Dead Husband’s Body Back

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When Joan Rivers’s husband killed himself in 1987, and Rivers couldn’t get his body released, she called Nancy Reagan in the middle of the night to intervene.

Tim Teeman
Tim Teeman 

Senior Editor and Writer

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Tim Teeman

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