Joy Behar Biography: Career Highlights, Family and Net Worth

Joy Behar is an American comedian, television host and writer best known as the only original co-host still appearing on ABC’s The View. She also fronted The Joy Behar Show on HLN and penned the book The Great Gasbag. Born Josephine Occhiuto in Brooklyn in 1942, she stands about 1.67 m tall and weighs around 65 kg. Her net worth is estimated at $30 million, with an annual salary of $7 million from The View. She first married television director Joseph Behar in 1965 and divorced in 1981. She has one daughter, Eve, born in 1970, and wed long-time partner Steve Janowitz in 2011. Raised in an Italian-American Catholic family, Joy’s career in stand-up comedy laid the groundwork for her two-decade run on daytime television.

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