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Geraldo Rivera is a multi-talented <a href="/biography/geraldo-rivera">person</a>, who enjoys a number of titles. He is an <a href="/biography/geraldo-rivera">author</a>, a host for a news channel, journalist and most importantly American attorney.  He is among the most famous reporters of the U.S.  At present he is hosting his own show on Fox.  The name of the show is named after his own name.

Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian and Cruz "Allen" Rivera, a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively. Rivera's 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. Rivera's family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and took to spelling their surname as "Riviera" because they thought it sounded "less ethnic".

From September 1961 to May 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College, where he was a member of the rowing team. In 1965, Rivera graduated from the University of Arizona (where he continued his involvement in athletics as a goalie on the lacrosse team) with a B.S. degree in business administration. 
Following a series of jobs ranging from clothing salesman to short-order cook, Rivera enrolled at Brooklyn Law School in 1966. As a law student, he held internships with the New York County District Attorney under legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hogan">crime-fighter</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hogan">Frank Hogan</a> and Harlem Assertion of Rights (a community-based provider of legal services) before receiving his J.D. near the top of his class in 1969. 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.

After working with such organizations as the lower Manhattan-based Community Action for Legal Services and the National Lawyers Guild, Rivera became a frequent attorney for the Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords, eventually precipitating his entry into private practice. This work attracted the attention of WABC-TV <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Primo">news director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Primo">Al Primo</a> when Rivera was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlem church in 1969. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Primo">Primo</a> offered Rivera a job as a reporter but was unhappy with the first name "Gerald" (he wanted something more identifiably Latino) so they agreed to go with the pronunciation used by the Puerto Rican side of Rivera's <a href="/biography/geraldo-rivera">family</a>: Geraldo. Due to his dearth of journalistic experience, ABC arranged for Rivera to study introductory broadcast journalism under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_W._Friendly">Fred Friendly</a> in the Ford Foundation-funded Summer Program in Journalism for Members of Minority Groups at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1970.

Geraldo started his reporter career from the city of New York.  He has also won many awards and accolades for performing his duties as a journalist.  This also includes the Kennedy award for journalism.  He has taken the interviews of many famous personalities which also includes late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson">Michael Jackson</a>.

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Geraldo has also written a number of books.  He authored six books from 1972 to 2009.  His first book was published by the Vintage Books of New York in the year 1972.  The title of the book is “Willowbrook”.  A number of people like his work and he earned a good place as an author.

In 1987, Rivera began producing and hosting the daytime talk show Geraldo, which ran for 11 years. The show featured controversial guests and theatricality, which led to the characterization of his show as "Trash TV" by Newsweek and two United States senators. One early show was titled "Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them". In another in 1988, Rivera's nose was broken in a well-publicized brawl during a show whose guests included white supremacists, antiracist skinheads, black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Innis">activist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Innis">Roy Innis</a>, and Jewish activists. 
From 1994 to 2001, Rivera hosted Rivera Live, a CNBC evening news and interview show which aired on weeknights.

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he accepted a pay cut and went to work for the Fox News Channel as a war correspondent in November 2001. Rivera's brother Craig accompanied him as a cameraman on assignments in Afghanistan. In 2001, during the War in Afghanistan, Rivera was derided for a report in which he claimed to be at the scene of a friendly fire incident; it was later revealed he was actually 300 miles away. Rivera blamed a minor misunderstanding for the discrepancy.

Controversy arose in early 2003, while Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. During a Fox News broadcast, Rivera began to disclose an upcoming operation, even going so far as to draw a map in the sand for his audience. The military immediately issued a firm denunciation of his actions, saying it put the operation at risk; Rivera was expelled from Iraq. Two days later, he announced that he would be reporting on the Iraq conflict from Kuwait.

If we talk about the personal life of <a href="/biography/geraldo-rivera">Mr.</a> Rivera he married five beautiful ladies. Somehow his first four marriages did not last long and he divorced them soon after.  His first wife was Linda Coblentz.  He married Linda in the year 1965 and this relationship lasted for four years, then the couple decided to go their separate ways.  Two years after his first divorce he married Edith and four years later they were divorced.  He did not have any children out of his first two marriages.  He has a son named Gabriel from his third marriage to Sherryl Raymond.  This time his marriage lasted for eight years.  In the year 1987 he married Cynthia and the couple became the parents of two children in the thirteen years of their marriage.  They had two daughters Simone and Isabella.  Geraldo’s fifth wife is Erica and he married her in 2003.  The couple gave birth to a baby girl after two years of their marriage.  They named her Solita.  It is also known that when he was the husband of Cynthia he had an extra-marital affair.  His girlfriend was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Americans">Mexican American</a>.  He also became the father of Cruz Grant because of this affair.  It might be the reason why Cynthia and Geraldo divorced.   Because of such ups and downs in his personal and professional lives he is always in news.

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