 Right up until her death, Joan Rivers lived in a stunning palace on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a penthouse suite in the sky that others have called a little piece of Versailles in New York City. Joan's longtime apartment is located inside one of New York's last remaining gilded age mansions constructed for John R Drexel, the heir of a powerful banking family from Philadelphia. Over the course of its history, the building would change hands. Then, in the 1930s, it became an exclusive apartment house with nine units. It would stay like that until the 1980s. Then, a year after her husband Edgar's death in 1987, Joan sold their home in Los Angeles and returned to New York State, purchasing this penthouse. No wonder.