Rihanna’s father dead at 70: Ronald Fenty ‘Passes in LA after illness’

RihannaThe father Ronald Fenty reportedly died at the age of 70.

TMZ has reported that Ronald died in Los Angeles After an illness.

Starcomm -NetworkA radio station in Rihanna’s native Barbados, has also reported the death of Ronald, adding that family members are now in his California.

Dailymail.com has contacted representatives for Rihanna for comment, but did not immediately hear.

Rihanna has had a tumultuous relationship with her father who at some point saw them get involved in legal misery.

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Rihanna’s father Ronald Fenty reportedly died at the age of 70

TMZ has reported that Ronald died in Los Angeles after an illness; Depicted with his daughter in 2006

In 2019 she sued her father to use their last name for his company Fenty Entertainment. In the suit, she accused him and his business partner of representing herself as her agents.

She withdrew her lawsuit in 2021 and it is believed that the two arrived.

In the past, Ronald has addicted addiction to cocaine and has long been a heavy drinker.

Rihanna told Oprah that as a child she had witnessed her father who physically abused her mother and once broke her nose.

Then Ronald was sent home in 2008 from her North -American tour after his drunk behavior in her tour bus.

Ronald said that Rihanna then froze him for two years before reconciling.

In 2013, the singer Ronald quietly set through a Malibu Rehab program of $ 58,000 to save him out of prison after being arrested during a visit to California.

But in 2014, Ronald was thrown out of her diamond ball after he embarrassed his daughter by getting drunk and falling on the red carpet.

He left California without seeing his daughter on that trip, although the two were reconciled later.

Rihanna is one of the three children who shared Ronald with his ex-wife Monica Braithwaite, whom he separated in 2002. In addition to the Grammy winner, they also have sons Rajad and Rorrey.

Ronald also has three other children from earlier relationships – Kandy, Samantha and Jamie.

Rihanna, her father and brother Rajad Fenty in 2012