Erica Michelle Levy: Geraldo Rivera’s Wife

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Erica Michelle Levy, the wife of talk show host, Geraldo Rivera was involved in a car crash on the West Side Highway, Sunday October 19th. Fortunately according to reports, no one was injured.

Rivera however, didn’t loose time and took to his Twitter account to say his wife was not the one who caused the accident but a “guy from out of state stopped short” and rear ended his wife’s Range Rover.

Erica was traveling with the couple’s only child, 8-year-old daughter Sol, and other than a scare they are both fine according to Rivera’s Tweet.

Want to know more about Geraldo’s lovely wife? Read about how they met, when they tied the knot and more about lovely Erica below.

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Documentary producer Erica Michelle Levy and Geraldo have been together for over a decade now. She was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio in 1975. Her father Howard Levy died after battling prostate cancer in 2007; he was a partner in Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, a law firm in Cleveland. Her mother is Nancy, née Malevan. She has a brother named, Joshua, according to IMDb.

Levy is a graduated from the University of Wisconsin. Erica is also Geraldo’s fifth wife. He was previously married to Linda Coblentz, Edith Vonnegut, Sherryl Raymond and C.C. Dyer. During his previous marriages, her hubby fathered a total of four children, making Erica a stepmom to them.

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The couple wedded in August 2003, in New York. Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein performed the ceremony at Central Synagogue in New York. At the time she was 28 and Geraldo was 60-years-old, meaning there is a 32-year-age difference between the couple.

They met when she was an employee of CNBC, where she was until 2001. A couple of years later she became the executive producer of Travel Channel program: ”Geraldo’s Voyager: From Roots to the Rain Forest.”

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Two years into their marriage, lovely Erica gave birth to Solita Liliana Rivera, who is now 8. The family reside in Edgewater, New Jersey.

Her hubby simply known as Geraldo recently celebrated 40-years in journalism and we know get to see him regularly on Fox News channel hosting “Geraldo at Large.” It’s hard to say which piece of story has been his most memorable but last year’s selfie clad only in a towel, exclaiming that “70 is the new 50” makes at least top 10!

Find Rivera on Twitter here.

Erica Michelle Levy

Erica Michelle Levy is the proud wife of iconic TV host, Geraldo Rivera.

Erica’s famous husband is best known as a renowned and veteran journalist, TV host and public personality.
He is regarded for his career as a TV host, political commentator and author. He has been in the scene for decades and is considered an accomplished personality.
The award-winning TV host, has enjoyed a lauded career and is still active in the industry, doing what he knows best.

For more about the couple including their careers, personal details, their net worth and achievements, keep on reading.

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Geraldo Rivera Wife Erica Michelle Levy net worth

Geraldo Rivera and Erica Michelle Levy have been together for several years now. Despite being in a longtime relationship, the two keep a low profile and most definitely are couple goals despite not flashing their love all over the place.

The two are low key and are living their best life thanks to their successful career and individual net worth’s that go above the million dollar mark.

Erica Michelle Levy bio

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Erica Michelle Levy is a native of Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was born January 30, 1975. She is the daughter of Howard Levy, her mother is Nancy, née Malevan. She has a brother named, Joshua, according to IMDb.
Her father died after battling prostate cancer in 2007.

Erica Michelle Levy personal life

Erica Michelle Levy a graduated from the University of Wisconsin. She graduated college from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a bachelor’s degree in communications. She advanced her journalism with a move to New York City.

When it comes to Erica’s personal life, she hasn’t been in any other high profile relationship other than the one with husband, Geraldo.
Erica Michelle Levy met Rivera met her then future husband at while working at CNBC.
Long story short, they have been husband and wife since 2003 and are still going strong.
The couple wedded in August 2003, in New York. Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein performed the ceremony at Central Synagogue in New York. At the time she was 28 and Geraldo was 60-years-old.

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Erica Michelle Levy age, height and weight

Geraldo Rivera wife Erica Michelle Levy is currently 46-years-old. That makes Erica Michelle Levy 32-years Geraldo’s junior. Her height and weight are yet to be disclosed.

Where does Erica Michelle Levy live?

Erica Michelle Levy is currently a resident of Cleveland. She and her family have been residents of Cleveland since 2017.
Erica and her husband bought a house in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio at the price of $2.8 million. The home was built in 1968, it measures 12784 square foot on size, it consists of six bedrooms, six full and two half bathrooms. It also features a three-stool walk-in wet bar, a swimming pool and French door-style glass sliders.

Erica Michelle Levy career

While Erica Michelle Levy’s name isn’t as well-known as some of Geraldo’s earlier love interests, she’s very accomplished in her own right.
Erica Michelle Levy worked at NBC Universal as a producer. After that, she started working for CNBC talk show Rivera Live, until 2001.

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As a documentary producer she became the executive producer of Travel Channel program: ”Geraldo’s Voyager: From Roots to the Rain Forest.” The program was created by Rivera’s production company, Maravilla Productions.

Erica Michelle Levy currently serves as co-host of “Geraldo In Cleveland” @WTAM1100 and “Roadkill” podcast.
The celebrity spouse and mother of one is also close to a number of initiatives including the Anti-Defamation League, Esperanza mentor, and is stays in the Cleveland community.

Erica Michelle Levy Net Worth timeline

Erica Michelle Levy net worth timeline includes her work as a producer.

She worked at NBC Universal as a producer.

She also served as a producer for CNBC talk show Rivera Live, until 2001.

Erica was later the executive producer of Travel Channel program: ”Geraldo’s Voyager: From Roots to the Rain Forest.”

She is currently working on a joint podcast with her famous husband.

Erica Michelle Levy Net Worth in 2021

According to online records, Erica Michelle Levy has a personal net worth in 2021 that goes beyond the several millions. Her net worth is approximately $5 million. She has made her money from her professional career.

Erica Michelle Levy Success

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Erica Michelle Levy is still successfully working in her chosen field of journalism. According to her husband, they currently live in what was her ‘dream house’ growing up and is happily married to the love of her life and father of her daughter. She is pretty successful.

Her husband revealed during a 2019 interview

It was Erica’s dream house growing up, She lived on Hermitage, went to Shaker schools. Our daughter goes to schools nearby.

What does Erica Michelle Levy do now?

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The mom of one and wife is currently the co-host: “Geraldo In Cleveland” #wtam1100 and “Roadkill” podcast.

Where can I find Erica Michelle Levy on social media?

Erica Michelle Levy keeps active on the most popular social media platforms including

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Erica Michelle Levy also keeps an active Instagram account where she has over a thousand followers.

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She can be found on Twitter, where she has over 500 followers since joining in 2012. She writes on her bio

Co-host “Geraldo In Cleveland”@WTAM1100  and “Roadkill” podcast. Anti-Defamation League board, Esperanza mentor, and active in the Cleveland community.

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She can also be found on Facebook as Erica Rivera.

Geraldo Rivera bio

Geraldo Rivera was born on July 4, 1943, in New York City, New York. His mother was a restaurant worker, and his father, a taxi driver. Riviera grew up in West Babylon and Brooklyn.
He attended the West Babylon High School. After finishing high school, he went on to study at the State University of New York Maritime College. There, he was a member of the rowing team.
Rivera graduated from college in 1963, and went on to study at the University of Arizona. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration in 1965.

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Rivera worked several jobs to support himself, like working as a clothing salesman and cook. In 1966, he enrolled at Brooklyn Law School. During this time, he was an intern with New York County District Attorney. He received his J.D. in 1969. He continued his education on the Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship in poverty law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1969, he was admitted to the New York State Bar.

Geraldo Rivera personal life

He was previously married to Linda Coblentz, Edith Vonnegut, Sherryl Raymond –with whom he fathered son, Gabriel Miguel –and C.C. Dyer –with whom he became the father of daughters, Isabella Holmes and Simone Cruickshank. Geraldo is also the father of Cruz Grant, from his relationship with a Mexican woman.

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Geraldo Rivera’s first spouse was Linda Coblentz, and they were married between 1965 and 1969.
After that, he married Edith Vonnegut in 1971 and stayed with her until 1975.
Between 1976 and 1984, he was in a relationship with Sherryl Raymond. With her, Geraldo has a son named Gabriel Miguel, born in 1979. He also has a son named Cruz Grant to a Mexican-American woman.

Cynthia Cruickshank Dyer was the fourth partner of the talk show host, and they were married between 1987 and 2000. Together, they have two daughters: Simone and Isabella.

Geraldo Rivera age, height and weight

77-year-old Rivera stands at 1.76 m and his weight is approximately of 71 kg.

Is Geraldo Rivera married to Erica Michelle Levy?

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The answer would be yes, he is currently married to wife number five, Erica Michelle Levy. Together they share daughter, Sol Liliana born in 2005.

Where does Geraldo Rivera live?

In May 2015 Geraldo and Erica paid $5.6 million for an apartment in New York City. They put the apartment up for sale in November 2016 for $7.2 million. They ultimately found a buyer for $6.1 million.

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He previously owned a smaller unit in the same building that he purchased for $3.4 million in 2011 and sold in 2015 for $3.96 million.
In 2017 Geraldo moved to his wife’s hometown of Cleveland where they purchased a $2.8 million 13,000 square-foot mansion. They still own an waterfront vacation home in Edgewater, New Jersey.
In 2019, the veteran broadcaster said he would remain in Cleveland for the rest of his life.

Geraldo Rivera career

After finishing his academic studies, Geraldo Rivera began working with Manhattan’s Community Action for Legal Services and the National Lawyers Guild. He became the attorney for Puerto Rican activist group Young Lords. His work with the group attracted media attention, specifically the WABC-TV news director Al Primo. He offered Riviera, a job as a reporter. Rivera took the job, but before he could start working, he had to take lessons in broadcast journalism at the Ford Foundation’s Summer Program in Journalism.

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In 1970, Rivera was officially hired by WABC-TV and began working as a reporter for Eyewitness News.
Rivera began appearing in several national programs, such as 20/20 and Nightline. During this time, he also began hosting ABC’s Good Night America.

Geraldo Rivera became the producer and host of the talk show Geraldo. The show ran for 11 years and featured controversial guests and a theatrical performance. The show was characterized as “Trash TV” by Newsweek and a couple of United States senators. In 1994, Rivera began hosting the show Rivera Live on CNBC evening news. Rivera accepted a position at Fox News Channel as a war correspondent.
He also took part in the 14th season of The Celebrity Apprentice and placed second; and competed in the 22 season of Dancing with the Stars.

Geraldo Rivera book deal

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Rivera is the author of several books including: His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.; The Geraldo Show: A Memoir, Exposing Myself, Special Kind of Courage and The Great Progression: How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity.

How successful is Geraldo Rivera?

Geraldo Rivera is considered one of media’s most enduring broadcasters, Geraldo Rivera is a Fox News Senior Correspondent and host of breaking news specials, the “Geraldo Rivera Reports.” He is a rotating co-host on the FOX News Channel’***** program The Five (weekdays 5-6PM/ET) and provides regular reports and commentary on FNC’s Fox and Friends, Hannity, The Kelly File and The O’Reilly Factor. He joined the network in 2001 as a war correspondent following the 9/11 attacks.

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Geraldo Rivera awards and achievements

The winner of the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award (his third) for his NBC News documentary, “Women in Prison,” and the Scripps Howard Foundation national journalism award for “Back to Bedlam,” Rivera has received more than 170 awards for journalism, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national and seven local Emmys, two Columbia-Duponts, and two additional Scripps Howard Journalism Awards.

Geraldo Rivera Net Worth timeline

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Geraldo Rivera began his career uncovering the poor living conditions at the Willowbrook State School for the mentally ill in 1972 while working for WABC; later authored his first book, Willowbrook, based on the scandal.

He was the first anchor to air the “Zapruder Film” of JFK’s assassination on network television in 1975.

In 1983, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Ken Ramsauer, a lighting designer from New York who had AIDS.

In 1986, Rivera hosted a broadcast; he later described as one of the highest profile programs in his career. The broadcast was about The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults under the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Millions of viewers watched the two-hour show, but unfortunately, nothing was found in the vault.

In 1987, Geraldo Rivera became the producer and host of the talk show Geraldo. The show ran for 11 years.

He published his autobiography, Exposing Myself, in 1991

In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, Rivera accepted a position at Fox News Channel as a war correspondent.

In 2015, Geraldo Rivera took part in the 14th season of The Celebrity Apprentice and placed second.

Some of the most recent shows in which Geraldo Rivera has worked are “Fox and Friends,” “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” and “The Five.” Apart from that, he is expected to appear in the documentary “Stallone: Frank, That Is.”

Geraldo Rivera Net Worth in 2021

According to online sources, Geraldo Rivera net worth in 2021 is estimated at $20 million.

Lessons learned from Geraldo Rivera

Notable lessons we can learn from Geraldo Rivera include that apologies are necessary.
In 2005, The New York Times accused Rivera of pushing aside a member of a rescue team to be filmed assisting a woman in a wheelchair in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rivera engaged in a feud with the magazine and demanded a retraction from the Times. In 2007, he was involved in a feud with Michelle Malkin, who announced that she would not return to The O’Reilly Factor since Fox News mishandled a dispute over statements Rivera made about her in an interview. Rivera said that she is a vile and hateful commentator but later apologized for his comments.

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In 2012, Rivera made several comments about Trayvon Martin’s hoodie and how it was connected to Martin’s shooting death. He continued to make these comments even in 2014 but later apologized.

Favorite Geraldo Rivera Quotes

“This is a sleaze bag murdering dog and he [O.J. Simpson] has played us for fools. And the worst thing he did was exacerbate the racial divide in this country. He divided black and white America.”

“I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.”

“To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.”

“Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn’t get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk”

“The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.”

What does Geraldo Rivera do now?

Rivera broadcasts nationwide on FOX News and locally on Newsradio WTAM 1100, mostly from his home in Shaker Heights. He also keeps busy with his Roadkill with Geraldo Rivera podcast.

Where can I find Geraldo Rivera on social media?

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Geraldo is quite active on Twitter where he has over 330k followers. He writes on his bio

“loving husband and dad, loyal friend, fierce enemy, patriot, kick *** reporter, proud JewRican”