Geraldo Rivera
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Birthday: July 4, 1943
Feisty, controversial American investigative news reporter Geraldo Rivera, the man who put the trash in trash journalism and spawned a legion of imitators, finally pulled the plug on his daytime shenanigans (after 11 seasons) to concentrate on mainstream journalism within the NBC news division. Boasting a career crammed with remarkable journalistic highs and embarrassing lows, he had begun garnering the personal and professional respectability he had long craved since renouncing his trademark sensationalism during the mid-1990s. Born in NYC to …more