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Officials: Joan Rivers rushed to hospital

NEW YORK

Joan Rivers was hospitalized Thursday after she was rushed from a doctor’s office when she went into cardiac arrest, police and hospital officials said.

In a statement, Melissa Rivers said her mother was “resting comfortably” with family. She did not elaborate on the 81-year-old comedian’s condition.

“We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers,” Melissa Rivers said. She offered thanks for the “overwhelming love and support for my mother.”

Earlier Thursday, Mount Sinai Hospital spokesman Sid Dinsay confirmed that Rivers was brought there in the morning.

New York City police officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly name Rivers, said she was taken to the hospital just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday. It was unclear why she was visiting the doctor’s office.

Rivers’ representatives didn’t immediately respond to requests for a comment.

The entertainer has logged a half-century in show business and gave rise to red carpet commentary — and the snarky criticism that often accompanies it.

She continues to maintain a busy schedule, and was to perform a show today at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. That show was postponed because of her hospitalization.

Jolie, Pitt wed privately at chateau in France

NEW YORK

The wait is finally over: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Hollywood’s reigning royal couple, have tied the knot.

On Thursday, a spokesman for the couple confirmed to The Associated Press that Hollywood’s undisputed royal couple had wed Saturday in a private ceremony in southern France.

Jolie and Pitt exchanged vows in a small chapel at the Chateau Miraval in the Provence hamlet of Correns. Since 2008, Miraval has been their home in southern France, a sprawling estate they bought three years ago.

No jail for man arrested amid Hoffman probe

NEW YORK

A friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s who was arrested on drug charges after the actor’s overdose death won’t face jail time.

Robert Vineberg pleaded guilty Thursday to heroin possession. He was ordered to serve five years’ probation.

The plea deal came after prosecutors dropped a more-serious drug charge that could have resulted in jail and Vineberg’s deportation to his native Canada. A prosecutor cited evidence issues as the reason for dropping the charge.

The 58-year-old Vineberg was arrested as police followed leads after Hoffman’s Feb. 2 death from a combination of heroin, cocaine and other drugs.

Associated Press