Gabriel Miguel Rivera: Who Is Geraldo Rivera’s Son?

Gabriel Miguel Rivera is Geraldo Rivera’s son. Gabriel’s father Geraldo is a well-known American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel. He produced and hosted the daytime talk show Geraldo, which ran for 11 years.

Gabriel Miguel Rivera: Bio Summary

How Old Is Gabriel Miguel Rivera?

Gabriel Miguel Rivera was welcomed into the world in the year 1979, on July 2 to his parents, Geraldo Rivera and his ex-wife Sherryl Raymond. Gabriel will be 44 years old on July 2, 2023. His parents were married from December 31, 1976, until they got divorced in 1984. He is the only child his parents gave birth to. Although Gabriel Miguel Rivera is his parent’s only child, he has four half-siblings from his father’s side. His half-siblings are Simone Cruickshank Rivera, Cruz Grant Rivera, Isabella Holmes Rivera, and Solita Liliana Rivera. In all, Gabriel’s father Geraldo has five children. He has also been married five times.

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Gabriel’s stepmother is television producer Erica Michelle Levy, the current wife of Gabriel’s father Geraldo Rivera. Gabriel Miguel Rivera is the grandson of Lillian (née Friedman; October 16, 1924 – June 3, 2018) and Cruz “Allen” Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively.

Gabriel Miguel Rivera’s educational details are not available. He is working and making money independently but details of his profession haven’t been revealed. He is believed to have a family of his own but he has kept their details from the limelight. He prefers a low-key life and does not share information about himself with the public.

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Gabriel Was Ashamed Of His Father

Gabriel Miguel Rivera was in the news for his comment of being ashamed of his father’s controversial comments about Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. At the time, his father Geraldo Rivera said Gabriel broke his heart with his comments. “Gabriel broke my heart. He’s my oldest, 32, and he just told me that for the first time in his life he’s ashamed of what I wrote on [Fox News Latino],” POLITICO revealed Geraldo said in an email.

Geraldo Rivera had made comments that Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain wouldn’t have been shot if he had not been wearing a hoodie. His comments received a lot of backlash on social media. “I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies,” Geraldo Rivera said on “Fox & Friends.”

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“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” Geraldo Rivera added that he constantly yelled at his son Cruz for going out wearing a hoodie or those pants around his ankles. He said: “When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles”.

Geraldo Rivera said in his email to POLITICO that he tried his best to make his son Gabriel understand where he was coming from.

“I wrote him, and I’m telling you that my mission is to save kids’ lives in the real world,” Geraldo said. “We can bluster and posture all day long about the injustice of it all, but despite what Roland Martin or even my son Gabriel Miguel Rivera says, every hoodie should come with a warning like cigarettes, ‘caution wearing this could get you killed.’

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According to Geraldo Rivera, “Gabriel wrote back to say I’ve gone viral for all the wrong reasons”. But despite his son’s reaction, Geraldo said. “No I don’t retract a word of it because I’m concerned with saving kids’ lives.”