Ronald Fenty, Rihanna World superstar father, he died 70 years in Los Angeles after a brief illness. The news was confirmed this Saturday by People and Page Sixciting Starcom Network as the first source, a Barbados station, the singer’s home.
Although the Official cause And the exact date of his death has not yet been revealed, it is known that Fenty died in the company of nearby relatives.
Photographs published by TMZ and Page Six show a Rajad FentyRihanna’s brother, arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center hospital on May 28.
According to both media, Rihanna was in the vehicle, although it was not approached by the paparazzi they walked in the place. So far, neither the artist nor her representatives have issued official statements about death.
The sad news comes at an especially sensitive moment for Rihanna, who is currently pregnant with her third child With his partner, the rapper at $ Ap Rocky. The singer had revealed that she was in the sweet wait in early May, during the Met Gala.
Rihanna is already the mother of two children: Rza, 2 years old, and Riot, 1.
Ronald Fenty He was born in Barbados and had six children, three of them with Monica Braithwaite —Rihanna, Rajad and Rorrey, “and three more,” Samantha, Kandy and Jamie, “as a result of previous relations.
During the first years of Rihanna’s life, the family lived in a small bungalow in Bridgetown, in a street that was later renamed “Rihanna Drive” in honor of the artist.
However, in Rihanna’s childhood there are painful memories of domestic violence and the addictions of her father. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the singer revealed that she witnessed how her father hit her mother, to the point of having broken her nose on one occasion.
“As a girl, you always expect your father to be your protector. But see that … change everything,” he said.
Ronald fought for decades against Alcohol addiction and crack. According to Daily Mailin 2008 he was expelled from the tour of his daughter in the United States due to his uncontrolled drunken state on the bus of the tour. After that episode, Rihanna distanced him from his life for two years.
In her conversation with Oprah, the singer of “Diamonds” said they had managed to repair their relationship. “He taught me many things. And no matter how horrible it was with my mother sometimes, that does not compare with how good father he was with me. I had to accept that to close that gap with him. ”
Subsequently in 2013 the artist secretly financed a rehabilitation treatment of $ 58,000 in Malibu to prevent his father from going to prison after being arrested during a visit to California.
But the link continued as irregular as a roller coaster. In 2014, he was expelled from Diamond Ball – a charity organized by Rihanna – for getting drunk and falling into the red carpet. Despite those stumbling blocks, they managed to reconcile again.
“Our relationship is really strange. That is the only word I can use to describe it, ”he shared with Vogue in 2011.” You grow up with your father, you are part of him … and then he does something so inconceivable that you can’t understand it. ”
One of the most tense episodes between the two occurred in 2019, when Rihanna sued her father for the improper use of her name in her company Fenty Entertainment. According to judicial documents cited by the BBCRonald Fenty and his partner Moses Perkins founded a company that, without authorization, claimed to be associated with the singer.
They would have tried to register the brand to open a boutique hotels chain, taking advantage of the prestige that ‘Fenty’ consolidated in their cosmetics and fashion lines.
Rihanna also claimed that her father tried to organize an international 15 -dates tour in Latin America, valued at 15 million dollars, without her consent.
The legal dispute was about to reach trial in September 2021, but was withdrawn by the singer weeks before the planned date.
Although no official explanations were given, US media reported that Both parties reached an extrajudicial agreement. After this, Ronald publicly said that they had reconciled again.
