Rihanna and her household are in mourning.

The pregnant “Diamonds” singer's dad Ronald Fenty has died, extra than one stores reported Could perchance perchance 31. He used to be 70.

Whereas the motive for his dying used to be no longer made public, he had lately battled an illness, the reports said. Sources end to the Fentys told Starcom Network News, which is essentially essentially based of their home country of Barbados, that household gathered in California earlier than Ronald handed away in the early hours of the morning.

News of his dying comes days after Rihanna's brother Rajad Fenty used to be photographed arriving at a Los Angeles scientific institution, reportedly with the Grammy winner in the automobile, TMZ reported.

As smartly as to the two, Ronald can also be survived by the siblings' mother, his ex Monica Braithwaite, and the light couple's other son collectively, Rorrey Fenty, 35, as smartly as the patriarch's three youngsters Samantha Fenty, Kandy Fenty and Jamie Fenty from previous relationships.

Rihanna— who’s making an strive forward to her third child with A$AP Rocky—used to be born Robyn Rihanna Fenty to Ronald and mother Monica Braithwaite in 1988. The 37-365 days-light's of us had divorced in 2002 when she used to be 14—two years earlier than she moved from their fatherland of Bridgetown, Barbados to the USA.

The Fenty Magnificence founder said her household “broke up” attributable to her dad's struggles with habit, and it took a whereas for her and her father to pass previous that.

“I repaired my relationship with my dad,” Rihanna tearfully told Oprah Winfrey in a 2012 interview, “I used to be so infected at him. I used to be correct infected about a total lot of things from my childhood and I couldn't separate him as a husband from him as a father.”

Rihanna said she came to discover that he used to be “doubtlessly one amongst the categorical fathers on this planet.”

“He taught me all the pieces,” she said. “And as unpleasant as he used to be to my mother at cases, it didn't evaluate to how enormous he used to be as a father. And I had to reach to terms with that. And I used to be in a quandary to end that gap with him.”

Years later, the two became focused on a honest dispute. Rihanna sued her father in 2019 for untrue advertising and marketing, untrue designation of origin and invasion of privacy—untrue light publicity.

In the lawsuit, bought by E! News, she alleged that Ronald and his industry accomplice “egregiously and fraudulently misrepresented to third events and the final public” that their company, Fenty Entertainment, used to be affiliated with her and had the authority to behave on her behalf. In 2021, Rihanna filed to brush off the lawsuit, the BBC reported.