Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fenty, has passed away. He was seventy. The story was first reported by Starcom Network, which said that Fenty passed away in Los Angeles after “a brief illness.” The cause and date of his death are still unknown.
The publication, which is headquartered in Barbados, Rihanna’s native nation, was informed by sources that Fenty’s family was present when he passed away.
Photos that TMZ was able to obtain showed Rajad Fenty, Rihanna’s brother, arriving into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on May 28. According to the site, the singer was in the car as well.
Born in February 1988 father Fenty and mother Monica Braithwaite, Rihanna is now expecting her third child. (The celebrity and A$AP Rocky are already parents to two-year-old Rza and one-year-old Riot.)
Rihanna has three half-siblings from her father’s past relationships: a brother named Jamie and two sisters, Samantha and Kandy.
Up until the age of sixteen, Rihanna was raised by Fenty and Braithwaite in Bridgetown, Barbados. They occupied a bungalow on what is now Rihanna Drive.
The pair separated when the “Love on the Brain” singer was still a child, and in 2002, when Rihanna was fourteen, they formally divorced.
Over the years, Rihanna and her father’s relationship has had ups and downs.
According to reports, Fenty discussed the 2009 assault by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown with the media without getting his daughter’s permission. Years later, Rihanna talked about the issue in an interview with Vogue, calling it “very odd.”
According to Billboard, she exclaimed, “You grow up with your father, you know him, you are a part of him, for heavens’ sakes!” “And then he does something so strange that I am having a hard time understanding it.”
Although they remained at clashes, particularly in 2019, when Rihanna sued her father for allegedly using her name for financial advantage, she told Oprah a year later that she had “repaired” her relationship with Fenty.
Among other grievances, she said her father set up a talent development business named Fenty Entertainment in 2017 and pretended to be her manager in order to attract new customers. However, the BBC reports that Rihanna filed to have the lawsuit dismissed three weeks prior to the 2021 trial.
