Melissa Rivers A Good Daughter

Jordan2 · ‎03-16-2010

I have never been a big fan of hers but what I read in an article has changed my mind. Almost a year after Joan's death Melissa is honoring her mother's wishes. Melissa still pays Joan's housekeeping staff, hair and make-up team a salary. Joan paid a good salary, health care, and paid for your kids to go to college. With Joan you had a job for life and were considered family. Melissa checks in with Joan's former assistant (who has Joan's dogs) and publicist, both got an inheritance. Joan would be very proud of how Melissa has conducted herself, honored her, and has kept her memory alive.

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

Thank you for posting this. It is nice for a change to read the good things people do. Joan raised Melissa well.

brii · ‎06-20-2010

Joan always seemed to treat people well.

It's nice to hear Melissa does, as well.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

Good for Melissa. I love hearing that Melissa is following in her mother's footsteps in these matters.

Joan lived incredibly well and Melissa should also, but giving to those who made/make that ease possible is a wonderful way for Melissa to go forward.

SydneyH · ‎03-10-2010

As executor of her will, isn't she bound legally to disperse her funds as requested? Or is Melissa paying out of her own pocket?

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@SydneyH wrote:
As executor of her will, isn't she bound legally to disperse her funds as requested? Or is Melissa paying out of her own pocket?

Doesn't matter. Being in charge of an estate, even a small one, is a messy and tedious process. I don't think this should be an issue either way. Meslissa had a hard job to deal wtih her mother, and will deal with her estate for many years to come. She deserves a lot of credit for sticking with Joan the way she did.

I thought Joan was great. But I also thought it would be VERY hard to be her daughter. Yes, there's lots of money. But money doesn't mean you don't hurt and/or have a hard time with what you have to deal with in life.

Chrystaltree2 · ‎12-08-2014

Is Melissa paying those people out of her own pocket? Or did Joan include those people in her will? If it's Melissa's money, then yes, she's an amazingly generous woman. If she's doing what was stipulated in her mother's will, then Joan was an amazingly generous woman. It only makes sense that Melissa would "check in" with people who worked for and with her mother for many, many years because those people were more than employees. They were like family, there was a personal relationship that didn't die when Joan died.

Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

I've always liked Melissa so it doesn't surprise me that she would do these things. I think she's built a solid career of her own, quietly in the shadow of her mother.

I think she and Joan had a very strong bond and I'm sure it's been an incredibly difficult time for her (and Cooper), losing Joan too soon and so needlessly the way they have.

None of us knows what Joan's will stipulated, but I do remember Joan saying one time that "Melissa gets everything." I'm certain Joan knew her daughter well enough to know that she'd do the right thing. And that's all that matters.

"" A little learning is a dangerous thing."-Alexander Pope

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

@SydneyH wrote:
As executor of her will, isn't she bound legally to disperse her funds as requested? Or is Melissa paying out of her own pocket?

Yes she is. And she'd have to report to the Court so they know she's doing everything stipulated in the Will.

But as you said, it's unclear from the OP whether Melissa is personally paying them or if this was put in Joan's Will.

SydneyH · ‎03-10-2010

@Lipstickdiva wrote:

Yes she is. And she'd have to report to the Court so they know she's doing everything stipulated in the Will.

But as you said, it's unclear from the OP whether Melissa is personally paying them or if this was put in Joan's Will.

If she is following the will, as she legally bound to do so, I'm confused with the praise. No biggie.