{"id":147436,"date":"2025-05-31T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147436\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:14:12","slug":"rihanna-suffers-devastating-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147436\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna suffers devastating family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rihanna<\/a>‘s father Ronald Fenty has reportedly passed away at age 70.<\/p>\n

TMZ<\/a> has reported that Ronald died in Los Angeles<\/a> following an illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Starcomm Network<\/a>, a radio station in Rihanna’s native Barbados, has also reported Ronald’s death, adding that family members are now in California<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Rihanna for comment but did not immediately hear back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rihanna has had a tumultuous relationship<\/a> with her father which saw them become embroiled in legal woes at one point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rihanna’s father Ronald Fenty has reportedly died at age 70<\/p>\n

\"TMZ <\/p>\n

TMZ has reported that Ronald died in Los Angeles following an illness; pictured with his daughter in 2006<\/p>\n

In 2019, she sued her father for using their last name for his company Fenty Entertainment. In the suit, she accused him and his business partner of representing themselves as her agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She withdrew her lawsuit in 2021, and it’s believed that the two came to a settlement.<\/p>\n

Ronald has battled addiction to crack cocaine in the past and has long been a heavy drinker.<\/p>\n

Rihanna told Oprah that as a child she witnessed her father physically abuse her mother, once breaking her nose.<\/p>\n

Then in 2008 Ronald was sent home from her North American tour following his drunken behavior on her tour bus.<\/p>\n

Ronald has said that Rihanna then froze him out for two years before they reconciled.<\/p>\n

In 2013 the singer quietly put Ronald through a $58,000 Malibu rehab program to save him from jail after he was arrested during a visit to California.<\/p>\n

But in 2014 Ronald was thrown out of her Diamond Ball after embarrassing his daughter by getting drunk and falling over on the red carpet.<\/p>\n

\"Rihanna, <\/p>\n

Rihanna, her father, and brother Rajad Fenty in 2012<\/p>\n

He left California without seeing his daughter on that trip, although the two later reconciled once more.<\/p>\n

And despite their subsequent legal problems, Rihanna even purchased a large house he lived in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rihanna is one of three children Ronald shared with his ex-wife Monica Braithwaite, whom he divorced in 2002. In addition to the Grammy winner, they also have sons Rajad and Rorrey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ronald also has three other children from previous relationships – Kandy, Samantha, and Jamie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TMZ published a photo of Rihanna’s brother Rajad Fenty arriving to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday in a car. His sister Rihanna is said to have been in the vehicle as well however she was not pictured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rihanna and Ronald’s relationship appears to have improved in recent years<\/p>\n

Despite their conflicts, Rihanna and Ronald appear to have overall remained on good terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ronald praised Rihanna for providing him support after he contracted coronavirus.<\/p>\n

‘My daughter Robyn was checking in on me every day,’ he told The Sun<\/a>\u00a0at his home in Barbados April 2020, referring to the pop star by her birth name.<\/p>\n

Ronald said Rihanna did everything she could to help him from her home in the U.S.<\/p>\n

‘I thought I was going to die to be honest. I have to say, I love you so much, Robyn,’ he told the outlet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She did so much for me. I appreciate everything she has done.’<\/p>\n

The pop star even purchased a ventilator and sent it to Ronald in Barbados, but he had yet to use it at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rihanna is one of three children Ronald shared with his ex-wife Monica Braithwaite, whom he divorced in 2002. In addition to the Grammy winner, they also have sons Rajad and Rorrey<\/p>\n

In 2022, Ronald told Page Six<\/a> he was ‘ecstatic’ to learn Rihanna was expecting her first child with partner A$AP Rocky (the couple are now expecting baby number three, with Rihanna unveiling her pregnancy at the Met Gala<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m so happy that I jumped for joy. I\u2019m still so excited,’ Fenty told the outlet.<\/p>\n

‘Rihanna always said that she wanted children, she loves kids. She always takes care of her cousins\u2019 kids\u2026she\u2019s going to be a good mom,’ her father said.<\/p>\n

The celebrity father, who spoke via phone from his home in Barbados, said he found Rocky to be ‘a very cool guy’ after the two got a chance to meet when his daughter brought the rapper home in December 2020.<\/p>\n

‘I like him,’ he added, before revealing that he got the news of Rihanna’s pregnancy a day before she and Rocky (born Rakim Mayers) went public with her burgeoning tummy.<\/p>\n

‘I just got the news from her last night, and she sent me some photos,’ he said. ‘I\u2019m just over the moon. She\u2019s beautiful inside and out.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rihanna‘s father Ronald Fenty has reportedly passed away at age 70. TMZ has reported that Ronald died in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[557,92,77,556,38626,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-147436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-rihanna","13":"tag-tvshowbiz","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114603810190149052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}