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Beth Greenfield

'Shark Tank' star Barbara Corcoran speaks out on losing mom to Alzheimer's

Barbara Corcoran in blue sweater (Credit: John Lamparski—Getty Images)

When Barbara Corcoran turned 70, she famously threw herself a mock funeral. 

“Everybody thought it was a publicity stunt,” the puckish real estate mogul and Shark Tank producer/co-star says today. “I just did it to shock the shit out of my friends. And they were shocked. If they had one moment of thinking I was dead it was worth it.”

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