Rihanna’s Dad Ronald Fenty Dead at 70

Rihanna’s Dad Ronald Fenty Dead at 70

Briana and her family are in mourning. Multiple outlets report that on May 31st, the singer’s dad, Ronald Fenty, has died at the age of 70. And while the cause of his death has not been made public, there have been reports stating he had recently battled an illness. Sources close to the family told Starcom Network News, which is based in their home country of Barbados, that family members gathered in California before Ronald passed away in the early hours of the morning. And news of his death comes days after Rihanna’s brother Rajett Fenty was photographed arriving at a Los Angeles hospital reportedly with the Grammy winner in the car per TMZ. Rihanna was born Robin Rihanna Fenty to Ronald and mom Monica in 1988. Her parents divorced in 2002 when she was 14, just 2 years before she moved from their hometown of Bridgetown, Barbados to the United States. The Fenty Beauty founder said her family quote broke up because of her dad’s struggles with addiction and it took a while for her and her father to reconcile, telling Oprah in a 2012 interview, I was so angry at him and I um I was just angry about a lot of things from my childhood and I I couldn’t separate him as a husband from him as a father. I felt like if he was a bad husband, he was a bad father. The minute I was able to realize like my father was probably one of the best fathers in the world. Like he taught me everything. And as awful as he was to my mom, at times it didn’t compare to how great he was as a father. And I had to come to terms with that. Mhm. And I was able to close that gap with him. And years later, the two became involved in a legal dispute with Rihanna suing her father in 2019 for false advertising, false designation of origin, and invasion of privacy, false light publicity. In the lawsuit obtained by E-News, she alleged that Ronald and his business partner quote egregiously and fraudulently misrepresented to third parties and the public that their company, Fenty Entertainment, was affiliated with her and had the authority to act on her behalf. In 2021, Rihanna filed to dismiss the lawsuit per the BBC.

Multiple outlets report that on May 31 the Rihanna’s dad Ronald Fenty has died at the age of 70.