Posted on 10/27/2005 9:51:56 PM PDT by SmithL
At 51, he's the younger brother --- just how old is Geraldo?
Oh I am sure Geraldo thinks he is about 32...
Indeed, but how old is he?
Never mind.
July 4, 1943 --- DOB 4 Geraldo
"Craig" is not very ethnic. I wonder why he bothered to change his last name like his brother Jerry.
Geeze, lots older than his brother.
He doesn't look like he is in his sixties.
It sure ain't the good living! LOL
The Roadmaster was my favorite. I was always fond of the Electra 225. The Riviara was sokay.
Not to be confused with his third show "At Geraldo with Large."
I have strong feelings for Shep. His voice is the best I have heard on TV in a long time. Very deep.
Keep talkin', Shep baby.
LOL! I live a block away from there. By not staying up late, I miss all the good stuff!
Back around 1986, Geraldo Rivera did a TV special called Innocence Lost about runaways in New Orleans. During the course of the show, he interviewed a 16-year-old prostitute named Tammy, who said that she had been out on the streets since she was 13 and had run away from home, because she had been molested by her mother's boyfriend. When asked what the worst thing that had happened to her since being on the streets she said that a man whose car she got into took off with her down the interstate and she jumped out of the car and messed up her back. Geraldo came back to her 30 days later and said that for Tammy things had changed. Now, she was pregnant and wanted to go home. Geraldo wished her good luck and left her to fend for herself. We felt that he had actually done her a disservice, because now she was prey to any man who had a good line to pretend he wanted to help her. Our charity, Thursday's Child, phoned Geraldo's staff to try and locate her. Geraldo's brother, Craig Rivera lied and told us they had gotten her off the streets. Meanwhile, we had already taped the segment when it re-aired a few days later, taken a photo of a close-up of her and sent it off to New Orleans PD to a Lt. Daniel Lawless in the district attorney's office. He in turn, made copies and handed them out to the patrol units in New Orleans' French Quarter. Less than a week later, we received a phone call from one of the detectives. They had found Tammy and taken her down to the station and wanted to know what to do with her. We gave them the number for Florida's Children's Protective Services, had them contact them and we followed up with an addition report. The next day, Tammy was on her way home. This was the first time in three years she was going to be speaking to her mother and now the authorities in Florida would be dealing with the molestation and with the man who molested her, so that it would never happen again. But what if we had listed to Craig Rivera? What would have been the fate of that girl?
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