Photos-- Inside Joan Rivers’ New York Apartment

                 This is the apartment Joan Rivers’ lived in before her death. The comedienne, who died at 81 last week, treated every day like a performance and would get ready in her bathroom which looked like a backstage dressing room (bottom right).
Sad that she couldn’t take it with her.
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 A pillar of showbusiness: Like Rivers, who died last week at 81, the New York apartment lined with pillars and mirrors is a star of the city, valued at around $35million

 Renaissance style: Rivers once described her home with marble statues and cast-iron décor as ‘where Marie Antoinette would live if she had the money’

 To get up to the glittering penthouse, next door to Bette Midler’s home, the star would have to scale this vast marble staircase helped by a carved iron rail

 The bedroom, complete with a four poster bed and lacy drapes and a permanent stock of fresh lilies, is ‘as elegant and beautiful as she was’, the realtor said

 Backstage: She prepared for every day as if she was going to perform, starting in this bulb-lined bathroom which resembled backstage at a theatre

 Painstaking: Never one to emerge without a made up face, Joan had an extensive collection of eyeliner, lip liner, eyelash curlers and mascara in little silver pots

This is a sneak peek inside the decadent wardrobe of the Fashion Police presenter