Joan Rivers’ daughter is Suing Doctor Suspected of Causing Joan Rivers' Death

Joan Rivers’ daughter is moving ahead with plans to sue the doctor at the center of an investigation into her mother’s death, a friend has said.

Dr. Gwen Korovin is suspected of triggering the 81-year-old comedian’s demise by performing an unscheduled biopsy on her. NewYorkDaily also reports that he continues to see patients and is even accepting new ones.

“It’s very difficult to discuss something so unpleasant with her, but she is going to launch a lawsuit,” a friend of Melissa Rivers told the Daily Mail.



“Korovin maintains privileges at one of the city’s most prestigious hospitals. She is respected and admired by her peers in the medical community and she is revered by her patients,” Korovin’s lawyer, Michael Kelton, said in a statement released to the Daily Mail.

Rivers went into cardiac and respiratory arrest on Aug. 28 while undergoing a throat procedure at the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic on the Upper East Side. She died at Mount Sinai Hospital on Sept. 4.