Rihanna: Her father Ronald Fenty dies at the age of 70

Sad news for the singer Rihanna (37): Her father Ronald Fenty died, according to agreed media reports at the age of 70. The confirmed sources and the. Fenty therefore succumbed to a short, serious illness in Los Angeles. The exact cause of death and the exact date of death were initially not announced.

The family has been with him in the past few hours, as sources to Starcom Network announced. In photos ,, Rihanna’s brother Rajad Fenty (29) was seen on May 28th when he arrived at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The singer is also said to have been in the vehicle, but was not recognizable on the recordings.

Ronald Fenty and Rihanna’s mother Monica Braithwaite (56) pulled their family in Bridgetown on the Caribbean island of Barbados, where the later world star lived up to the age of 16. The couple separated when Rihanna was still young and divorced in 2002 when the singer was 14 years old. In addition to Rihanna, who is called Robyn Rihanna Fenty with a bourgeois name, and Rajad have another son, Rorrey (35). Ronald Fenty also has three other children from previous relationships: the daughters Samantha (44) and Kandy (54) and son Jamie (41).

The relationship between Rihanna and her father was characterized by ups and downs over the years. There was a particularly severe cut in 2009 after the singer had been attacked by her friend Chris Brown (36). At that time, Ronald Fenty spoke without his daughter’s consent to the press about the incident, which Rihanna later described in a “Vogue” interview as “really strange”.

A year later, she told Talk-Queen Oprah Winfrey (71) that she had “repaired” her relationship with Ronald Fenty, even though there were still tensions. In 2019, Rihanna even sued her father because he supposedly exploited her name for financial profits. Among other things, she claimed that he founded a company called Fenty Entertainment in 2017 and pretended to be her manager to acquire new customers. Three weeks before the start of the trial 2021, however, Rihanna withdrew the lawsuit.

Despite the difficult phases, the relationship between father and daughter seemed to have recently relaxed. In February 2023, Ronald Fenty faced TMZ “overjoyed” about the renewed pregnancy of his daughter with a $ ap rocky (36) and expressed the desire to be part of the life of the baby. Rihanna has already been the mother of the two sons RZA (2) and Riot (1) and is currently expecting her third child.