Overview

• Ronald Fenty passed away on May 31 in Los Angeles after a brief illness, and he was surrounded by family members.
• Photos from May 28 showed Rihanna’s brother Rajad at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with reports indicating the singer joined him to visit their father.
• Rihanna, who is expecting her third child with partner A$AP Rocky, has not publicly addressed her father’s death.
• Prime Minister Mia Mottley described Fenty as a “son of Barbadian soil” whose life story embodied the spirit and resilience of the nation.
• The singer and her father shared a tumultuous relationship characterized by addiction struggles, periods of reconciliation and a 2019 lawsuit over the use of the Fenty name.