Nationwide — Rihanna’s father, Ronald Fenty, has died at age 70 after a quick sickness, his household confirmed. He handed away early Saturday in Los Angeles, the place kinfolk gathered to recollect him. Ronald Fenty’s explanation for dying has not been formally introduced. Photographs confirmed Rihanna’s brother visiting him at Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart days earlier than his dying, as reported by Web page Six. Rihanna has not made a public assertion.
His dying comes because the singer is anticipating her third little one with longtime companion A$AP Rocky. She revealed her being pregnant earlier this month on the Met Gala.
Rihanna and her father had a strained relationship through the years. Ronald struggled with habit and separated from her mom when Rihanna was 14. In a 2011 Vogue interview, she described their bond as “actually unusual.” The next yr, she advised Oprah Winfrey that she had forgiven him, saying she had discovered to separate who he was as a father from who he was as a husband.
Their relationship hit one other tough patch in 2019 when Rihanna sued Ronald for allegedly utilizing her identify for enterprise by his firm, Fenty Leisure. She dropped the case in 2021, they usually reportedly reconciled once more.
In 2020, when Ronald battled COVID-19, Ronald mentioned Rihanna checked on him daily whereas he remoted in Barbados and he or she despatched him a ventilator. He finally recovered.
In later years, Ronald additionally spoke warmly about being a grandfather to Rihanna’s first son, RZA, born in 2022. He praised her as a loving and protecting mom.
