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Joan Rivers heads to Big Easy for city's 'healing'

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -

 Comedian Joan Rivers is hosting two stand-up shows in New Orleans to benefit an organization that has been aimed at rebuilding the city in the years since Hurricane Katrina.

The New Orleans Healing Center is run by a voodoo priestess, Sallie Ann Glassman, who is friends with Rivers. About 15 years ago, they met when Rivers thought her New York apartment was haunted. Rivers asked Glassman to perform a spiritual cleansing.

Glassman wore a flowing white gown and chased off the disturbing spirits in a night of rituals. Rivers says Glassman's efforts worked.

Rivers is returning the favor with the benefit shows. Glassman's healing center is an incubator for about two dozen businesses and organizations focused on what Glassman describes as the environmental, spiritual and economic healing of New Orleans."

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