Geraldo Rivera

Gerald Michael Rivera , better known as Geraldo Rivera , is an American attorney, reporter, author, and talk show host. He was the host of the talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998. Rivera hosted the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, hosts the occasional broadcast of Geraldo Rivera Reports , and appears regularly on Fox News Channel programs such as The Five.

Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian , a waitress, and Cruz Allen Rivera , a restaurant worker and cab driver. Riveras father was a Catholic Puerto Rican, and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised mostly Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York, where he attended West Babylon High School. Riveras family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and took to spelling their surname as Riviera because they thought it sounded less ethnic.

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