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Biography of Geraldo Rivera Biography of Geraldo Rivera • Name: Gerald Michael Rivera. • Born: 4 July 1943, Nantes, France. • Father: Cruz "Alan" Rivera. • Mother: Lillian. • Wife / Husband: Linda Koblentz, Edith Vonnegut, Sheryl Raymond, CC. Dyer, Erica Michelle Levy. Early life of Geraldo Rivera:         Rivera was born in New York City, New York, to Lillian (nee Friedman, October 16, 1919 - June 3, 2018) and Cruz "Alan" Rivera (October 1, 1915 - November 1987). A restaurant worker and cab driver respectively. Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican, and his mother Ashkenazi was of 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 his mother took his surname to spell him as "Rivera" so that they could be fanatically...