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Joan Rivers Funeral: Kelly Osbourne, Sarah Jessica Parker And Whoopi Goldberg Among Guests Paying Their Final Respects

Joan Gets Her Star-Studded Send Off
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Joan Rivers' funeral, which took place on Sunday, was as star-studded as you'd expect for someone who had been in showbiz for more than six decades.

Mourners at Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El in New York included Kelly Osbourne who worked with her on 'Fashion Police', actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Trump and fellow comic Kathy Griffin.

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Kelly Osbourne

The comedian died last week at the age of 81 following a spell in hospital after suffering a heart attack during an operation on her vocal cords at a New York clinic.

Hundreds of fans of the star also lined the streets outside the Temple to pay their last respects.

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Kelly Osbourne, center, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Whoopi Goldberg arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Radio personality Robin Quivers, right, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Donald Trump arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Barbara Walters arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Dr. Memhet Oz, left, and his wife Lisa Oz, arrive at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People in a horse and carriage pass as attendees arrive at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Television news anchor Diane Sawyer, upper right, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Howard Stern, center, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott walk to a waiting car after the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Former television anchor and host Barbara Walters arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rosie O'Donnell speaks with attendees as she leaves a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Carolina Herrera arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Actor Matthew Broderick departs a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Kelly Osbourne arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Melissa Rivers looks out the window of a car at a group of bagpipers as they leave the funeral service for her mother, comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at age 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Attendees gather after a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Howard Stern, center right, and his wife Beth depart a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Deborah Norville is embraced after a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Sarah Jessica Parker, center right, speaks with attendees after a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott look out the window of a car as they leave the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Bagpipers march out the doors of Temple Emanu-El after the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Bagpipers march from the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Geraldo Rivera, center, arrives at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Mourners embrace as they arrive at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Bagpipers march out the doors of Temple Emanu-El onto Fifth Avenue after the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People watch as guests arrive at a funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The family of U.S. diplomat Anne T. Smedinghoff, parents Tom and Mary Beth, along with her sisters Regina, Joan and brother Mark and his fiancee Lindsay Martin, follow Smedinghoff's casket out of St. Luke Catholic Church after a funeral Mass Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in River Forest, Ill. Smedinghoff was killed by a bomb when she set out on foot for a one block trip to deliver books to a school in southern Afghanistan on April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast-Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The family of U.S. diplomat Anne T. Smedinghoff, parents Tom and Mary Beth, along with her sisters Regina, Joan and brother Mark and his fiancee Lindsay Martin, follow Smedinghoff's casket out of St. Luke Catholic Church after a funeral Mass Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in River Forest, Ill. Smedinghoff was killed by a bomb when she set out on foot for a one block trip to deliver books to a school in southern Afghanistan on April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast-Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Entertainer Joan Rivers, center, and her 19-year-old daughter, Melissa, left, leave hand-in-hand the memorial service for Edgar Rosenberg, Joan's husband and Melissa's father, in Los Angeles, Calif., August 16, 1987. Over 300 mourners gathered at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple to pray and listen to remembrances of Rosenberg, who died in an apparent suicide last week. The Rabbi at right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and her son, James Wilkie Broderick are seen on September 7, 2014 at Joan River's Funeral in New York City. (Photo by GWR/Star Max/GC Images) (credit:GWR/Star Max via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker and her son, James Wilkie Broderick are seen on September 7, 2014 at Joan River's Funeral in New York City. (Photo by GWR/Star Max/GC Images) (credit:GWR/Star Max via Getty Images)

The New York City Gay Men's Chorus opened the ceremony with a series of Broadway hits, while bagpipers from the New York City Police Department performed 'New York, New York'.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Radio host Howard Stern delivered the eulogy, in which he described the comic as 'the best friend in the world... a big sister... a crazy aunt at a bar mitzvah'.

'Wolverine' star Hugh Jackman gave a rendition of the song 'Quiet Please, There's A Lady On Stage', from his musical 'The Boy From Oz'.

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Joan had a few ideas of her own about how things should go when she was laid to rest.

Writing in her collection of essays ‘I Hate Everyone...’, which was published last year, Joan joked: “When I die (and yes, Melissa, that day will come; and yes, Melissa, everything’s in your name), I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action… I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene!

“I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying; in five different accents.

“I want to look gorgeous, better dead than I do alive.

“And I want a wind machine so that even in the casket my hair is blowing just like Beyoncé’s.”

Senior Rabbi Joshua M Davidson, who conducted the service, said beforehand in a statement: "We mourn with her family, friends and all those millions to whom she brought laughter and joy."

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