Rihanna is mourning the lack of her father, Ronald Fenty, who has handed away on the age of 70.
Starcom Community, a media outlet based mostly in Rihanna’s native Barbados, first broke the information. Fenty died in Los Angeles after “a short sickness.” Whereas the official trigger and actual date of his loss of life haven’t been made public but, sources advised Starcom that Fenty’s household was by his aspect across the time he handed.
Pictures revealed by Web page Six confirmed Rihanna’s youthful brother, Rajad Fenty, arriving at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles to go to their father. Rihanna was reportedly within the automotive with him, however not lensed.
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The Grammy-winning artist has not but publicly commented on her father’s passing.
All on Rihanna and Ronald Fenty’s difficult relationship
Ronald struggled for years with substance abuse, and his dependancy created rigidity inside the household. He additionally separated from Rihanna’s mom, Monica Braithwaite, when the singer was simply 14 years outdated. Rihanna advised Vogue that their bond was “actually unusual.”
“That’s the one phrase I can consider to explain it since you develop up along with your father … you might be part of him for goodness sakes!” she stated.
“After which he does one thing so weird that I can’t start to wrap my thoughts round it.”
“You hear the horror tales about folks going behind folks’s backs and doing unusual issues, however you at all times assume, ‘Not my household. My father would by no means try this to me,’” she added.
Rihanna, nonetheless, advised Oprah Winfrey in a 2012 interview that, “He taught me all the things, and as terrible as he was to my mother, at instances, it didn’t evaluate to how nice he was as a father. And I needed to come to phrases with that, and I used to be in a position to shut that hole with him.”
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Nonetheless, that peace was examined once more in 2019 when Rihanna filed a lawsuit in opposition to her father, accusing him of utilizing her identify and model with out permission by way of his firm, Fenty Leisure.