Rihanna's Dad Ronald Fenty Dies at 70 Following a Brief Illness

Rihanna's dad, Ronald Fenty, has died, PEOPLE tin confirm. He was 70.

According to Starcom Network, which was first to study nan news, Fenty died successful Los Angeles pursuing "a little illness." His charismatic origin and day of decease person yet to beryllium revealed.

Sources told nan outlet, which is based successful Rihanna's location state of Barbados, that Fenty's family was pinch him astir nan clip of his death.

In photos obtained by TMZ, Rihanna's brother, Rajad Fenty, could beryllium seen arriving astatine nan Cedars-Sinai Medical Center connected May 28. The outlet reported that nan vocalist was besides successful nan vehicle.

Representatives for Rihanna did not instantly respond to PEOPLE's petition for remark connected Saturday, May 31.

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Rihanna — who is presently pregnant and expecting her 3rd baby — was calved to Fenty and mother Monica Braithwaite successful February 1988. (The prima is already a mom to sons Rza, 2, and Riot, 1, pinch A$AP Rocky.)

Along pinch Rihanna and Rajad, Fenty and Braithwaite were besides parents to Rorrey. Rihanna besides has 3 half-siblings from her father’s erstwhile relationships: sisters Samantha and Kandy, positive relative Jamie.

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Fenty and Braithwaite raised their family successful Bridgetown, Barbados, wherever Rihanna lived until she was 16 years old. They occupied a bungalow connected a thoroughfare that has since been renamed Rihanna Drive.

The brace separated erstwhile nan "Love connected nan Brain" musician was young, and they officially divided successful 2002, erstwhile Rihanna was 14.

Rihanna's narration pinch her begetter has had its ups and downs complete nan years.

After nan prima was assaulted by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009, Fenty reportedly said to nan property astir nan incident without his daughter's consent. Rihanna addressed nan matter years later successful an question and reply with Vogue, successful which she called nan business "really strange."

"You turn up pinch your father, you cognize him, you are a portion of him, for goodness' sakes!" she said, per Billboard. "And past he does thing truthful bizarre that I can’t statesman to wrap my mind astir it."

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A twelvemonth later, Rihanna revealed to Oprah that she "repaired" her narration pinch Fenty, though they continued to beryllium astatine odds, including successful 2019, erstwhile Rihanna sued her begetter for allegedly exploiting her name for financial gain.

She claimed, among different complaints, that her begetter founded a talent improvement institution successful 2017 called Fenty Entertainment, posing arsenic her head to solicit caller clients. However, 3 weeks earlier nan lawsuit went to proceedings successful 2021, Rihanna revenge to disregard nan lawsuit, according to the BBC.