Saturday morning, in Los Angeles, he died Ronald Fentysinger’s father Rihannaat 70. The news was confirmed by Starcom Network NewsRadio radio station in Barbados, the artist’s native country. According to the medium, the death occurred after a “Brief disease”. The exact cause has not yet been revealed.
The family environment has already gathered in California to pay tribute to his life. Photographs published by Page Six show a Rajad Fentythe singer’s brother, arriving at Cedars-Sinai hospital on Wednesday to visit him. It is presumed that Rihanna was also in the vehicle, although it was not captured by the cameras.
The news comes in the midst of a special moment for the artist, who waits for her third child with A $ AP Rocky. Rihanna released her pregnancy during the past Met Gala, where she paraded her growing belly.
A relationship marked by ups and downs
Born as Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the singer has maintained a complex relationship with her father. Over the years, Ronald faced Problems with alcohol and drugs, a situation that generated friction within the family nucleus. His divorce from Monica Braithwaite, Rihanna’s mother, happened when the singer was only 14 years old.
In an interview with Vogue In 2011, Rihanna openly spoke of distancing with her father, describing him as a “really strange” relationship. “That is the only word that occurs to me to describe it, because one grows with his father… You are part of Him, for the love of God!“He said then.
“And then it does something so strange that I can’t understand it. You listen to horror stories about people who act behind others and do strange things, but you always think: ‘Not my family. My father would never do that to me ‘”.
In 2012, however, both managed to approach again. In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey, Rihanna explained that he had learned to distinguish between the father and the husband that Ronald was. “He taught me everything, and no matter how terrible it was with my mother, at some times, that does not compare to how wonderful it was as a father. And I had to accept that, and I could close that gap with him“
Between demands and reconciliations
Harmony did not last long. In 2019, the artist sued her father for the unauthorized use of her name in her company Fenty Entertainmentclaiming that he sought to obtain commercial benefits by believing that he had official links with her. The lawsuit was withdrawn in 2021, weeks before arriving at trial, and according to Ronald, Both had managed to reconcile once again.
In subsequent conversations with Page SixRonald was excited for his role as a grandfather of RZARihanna’s first son and $ Ap Rocky, born in May 2022. He said that the singer had already taken the baby to Barbados twice and commented: “He loves. She is a very overprotective mother.”
Ronald Fenty’s life was marked by contradictions, distances and reunions. And although his link with Rihanna was anything but simple, In recent years there seemed to be space for reconstruction.
