{"id":67033,"date":"2025-05-31T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67033"},"modified":"2025-05-31T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T20:20:47","slug":"rihanna-mourns-father-ronald-fenty-dead-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/31\/rihanna-mourns-father-ronald-fenty-dead-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Mourns Father, Ronald Fenty, Dead at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ronald Fenty, father of global pop superstar Rihanna, has passed away at the age of 70 in Los Angeles following a battle with an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the family confirmed his death on Friday, noting that members of the Fenty family had gathered at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in his final days.<\/p>\n<p>Rihanna was believed to be present, offering quiet support during the somber period.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald and Rihanna had a complicated but evolving father-daughter relationship. Though they endured periods of estrangement-marked by personal struggles and public disputes, they had reconciled in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2023 interview, Ronald expressed pride in Rihanna\u2019s achievements and excitement over her expanding family with A$AP Rocky, saying he was \u201cgrateful to be part of her journey again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fenty had three children; Rihanna, Rajad, and Rorrey with his former wife, Monica Braithwaite, from whom he separated in 2002, just as Rihanna\u2019s ascent to global stardom began.<\/p>\n<p>His passing closes a poignant chapter in Rihanna\u2019s life, defined by trials, healing, and the power of forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Ronald Fenty, father of global pop superstar Rihanna, has passed away at the age of 70 in Los Angeles following a battle with an undisclosed illness. Sources close to the family confirmed his death on Friday, noting that members of the Fenty family had gathered at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in his final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67035,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67033\/revisions\/67035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}