Joan Rivers’ doctor took a selfie while performing an unauthorised procedure on the comedienne’s throat that caused her to stop breathing, according to reports.

A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR law case will open in a New York courtroom next Monday when the family of a Limerick woman who died as a result of botched plastic surgery begin an action against a disgraced surgeon.

THE family of a Limerick mother-of-two, who died after a face lift operation in New York went tragically wrong, yesterday refused to comment on reports that the autopsy was inconclusive.

DR MICHAEL SACHS is everything a high-powered New York plastic surgeon is supposed to be: rich, opinionated and a master of self-publicity, with lots of friends in high places.

ON March 27, 2004, Michael Sachs was permanently banned from doing complicated nose surgery without another surgeon looking over his shoulder.