Publicist hired Joan Rivers impersonator to make 'last recording session' tape
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Publicist Beck Lee has admitted making a phony tape of Joan Rivers and passing it off as her “last recording” in a shameless attempt to promote his client Brad Zimmerman’s two-bit show.
Lee claimed that he’d discovered a tape of Rivers rehearsing a radio ad for Zimmerman’s off-Broadway idiocy, “My Son the Waiter, a Jewish Tragedy” after Rivers’ death. Rivers had been scheduled to record an ad for Zimmerman on the day she went to Yorkville Endoscopy. But even as she passed away in the hospital, Lee hired an impersonator to record it in Rivers’ voice.
Lee went on to proudly claim Rivers herself had made the tape “at home” as a rehearsal and went so far as to post it on YouTube under the heading, “Joan Rivers Last Session,” with a picture of Joan and “1933-2014.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lee yesterday admitted to Page Six, “I hired an impersonator and made the tape last week. I did claim it was made by Joan Rivers and it was her voice. I wish I hadn’t.”
Rivers’ rep Judy Katz blasted it as “a publicity stunt . . . wholly disrespectful to the memory of Joan Rivers.”