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Joan Rivers not allowed on flight

Comic Joan Rivers was barred from getting a flight - because airline officials deemed her passport "suspicious".

The acid-tongued star was trying to fly from Costa Rica to Newark airport in New Jersey. But as she tried to board, the 76-year-old was pulled to one side after a Continental Airlines security agent checked her details.

Her passport reads: "Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers." Rosenberg was her late husband's last name.

She told a US newspaper: "I tried the tears; they didn't work. I tried reasoning. I couldn't bribe because I didn't have any money.

"I said 'I'm going to have a heart attack over this,' so the woman called the paramedics."

"Everyone in the crowd knew me and was asking for autographs. I asked the gate guard to phone the pilot to verify me."

She eventually managed to get a flight home the following morning after driving 6 hours, she says.

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