Back in the end of May/beginning of June, a quiet little storm erupted around Lauryn Hill. She announced that she was pregnant yet again, for the SIXTH time. Many assumed that the baby-daddy of this child was the same as the others, namely Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley. Rohan’s personal life is even more of a mystery than Lauryn’s, though, and some commenters have pointed out that for all of this time, he’s been technically and legally married to Geraldine Khawly, who he met when he was in college. He and Geraldine have two children. In addition to being married to Geraldine, and being baby-daddy and boyfriend to Lauryn (although Lauryn has referred to him as her husband too…?), Rohan has always identified himself as “single” on his MySpace. So, a gem of a guy.
Anyway, the controversy back two months ago was that Rohan seemed to be kinda/sorta denying paternity for Lauryn’s sixth pregnancy. Some claimed he was denying paternity, but I thought he was just kind of being a dick to a Hip Hop Wired journalist on Twitter – go here to read my previous article. Now there’s a new scandal brewing.
Lauryn just gave birth. Nearly at the same time, Rohan seemingly went public with his new relationship. It seems he’s dating Isabeli Fontana, a Brazilian model, probably best known for her work on multiple Victoria’s Secret campaigns.
Lauryn Hill may finally have material for that long-awaited album. The singer, 36, has reportedly been dumped by the father of her five children, Rohan Marley — and she’s pregnant with their sixth.
According to Media Take Out, Marley, the fourth son of reggae singer Bob Marley, left Hill for Brazilian model, Isabeli Fontana.
Just last week, the 28-year-old posted a photo of her and Marley on her Twitter page and wrote, “I’m in love with @Romarley’s heart.”
After the report that he replaced Hill with Fontana, Marley, 39, also took to Twitter to defend himself, although he didn’t exactly deny the split.
“Ms. Hill is the mother of my children, whom I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for,” he wrote on Saturday. “I would never do that.”
In a follow-up tweet, he added, “The nature of our relationship something we don’t expect people who spread gossip for a living to fully understand.”
Hill and Marley first got together in 1996 — when he was already married with two kids.
Fontana, who has modeled for Victoria’s Secret, Versace and Valentino, is twice-divorced and has a son from each marriage.
[From The NYDN]
Even as that report was published, it seems that Lauryn had already given birth, and that all of the junk on Twitter was pretty much happening simultaneously. Rohan later wrote on Twitter, “I’m forwarding all well wishes to Ms. Hill on the birth of her new son. I’m sure she’ll appreciate the love being sent to her RASTAFARI R.M.” On the birth of HER new son? Meaning he still doesn’t acknowledge the son as his? Ugh. Also, Rohan seems to be threatening lawsuits if media outlets don’t get their facts straight, which is weird because NO ONE CAN FIGURE ANYTHING OUT. No one knows if he’s still married to his first wife, if he and Lauryn are still technically together, if he’s known to be with a Brazilian model, nothing.
By the way, if you’d like to see some of the funky photos Isabeli was tweeting of she and Rohan, you can catch her Twitter feed here.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Lauryn is so beautiful to me.
that Rohan is a real catch…why are women attracted to this type of guys? masochism I guess…and OMG Isabeli Fontana is 27 yo, twice divorced and with two kids…lovely
who cares about him? lauren’s the one with all the talent.
I’m sure these women would be all over him if his surname was “Smith”, because he seems like such a catch – right down to boobs even bigger than his new girlfriend’s!
Is she giving birth in the first pic?
Yuck. What a mess.
I’m pretty sure divorces are a matter of public record (dependent upon in which state/country they occur) so SOMEONE should be able to find out SOMETHING about his current “status.” This guy…what an a$$hole.
Something seems off about Miss Hill, as for her living arrangement with Rohan Marley……… what a waste of time!
Of course “Mr. father of 5” has moved on to greener pastures (or one could say…. wasting another females life…… so pathetic), he seems like just that type. Any woman who thinks he is “something to hold on to” is rather off (has mental issues).
Needless to say, the scumbag is married!
Son of a bitch!
Poor Lauryn to fell for such a dick..get your act together girl. I really feel for her..
@mags: you said it! he’s nothing.
yuk…nice bolt-ons, Isabeli.
and Rohan is UGGO.
I hope Lauryn Hill comes out of this better than before. the woman is immensely talented, but she’s got mental health issues and being with a guy like this who uses emotional abuse is NOT GOOD for her.
If this is true then Isabeli Fontana has a type because dude looks remarkably like her on-and-off boyfriend Falcão, singer from a Brazilian band called O Rappa.
http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&client=firefox-a&hs=qWi&rls=org.mozilla:pt-BR:official&channel=s&biw=1280&bih=532&q=falc%C3%A3o%20o%20rappa&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2748l4040l0l4338l8l7l0l0l0l0l206l397l0.1.1l2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
As a black woman I am going to play that card.. this story is all kinds of messed up, and if Lauren and Rohan had been white this shit would be on every entertainment show and magazine cover. As is stands it is a footnote in gossip land.
Lauren had 5 kids (waiting on news if it is actually 6) with a man that seems to have been married the entire time of their relationship. YET nothing in the tabloids.
And they are still printing shit about relationships that are over 7 years olds and fake shit..
there is some real gossip and smut out there and the tabloids are missing all of it. Still focused on the wrong people. This story is all kinds of WTF.
@really Uhm yeah there are a lot of things off about Miss Hill she took over a year to name her previous child. I think it’s well known that she has some form of mental illness. It’s a shame because she is really talented but that’s all gone to waste.
Girl needs to listen to her own lyrics. “Lauren baby use your head.”
The dude’s ugly. These women both need to move on from him.
Yeah, he’s fucking around. You must understand that, at the risk of casting my assumptions to widely, we (members of the Pan-Black community) apparently like to play “pass the man”.
There’s this rather insidious tendency in the black community (Caribbeans, Africans, African-Americans)wherein relationships are in state of flux, as many men retain the right to remain sexually mobile as possible. Think musical beds.
I can’t tell you how many black women I know put up with this shit. They stay with these men for years have multiple kids, and rarely does he stay put.
And these types are the worst because they try to couch their itinerancy in bullshit philosophies to justify their non-committal behavior.
They like to explain it away as some perfectly justified cultural reality that perhaps our bourgeois-oriented minds can’t grasp.
There’s probably an “implicit” arrangement with these two. I obviously don’t know what’s going on, but I intuit some sort of distance. Who the hell writes, “I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for her.” That’s something that you write about a mentor or a beloved colleague. Seems a little cool for someone who is supposed to be your partner.
HATE these types.
That woman looks like THAT after 2 children? Good Lawd!
Also, Who still uses MYSPACE?
Its the rastafarian way to put it about an lets face it Lauryn Hill was apparently OK with it all through 5 kids-she is very strange anyway…
then there’s the sweet devoted ziggy marley who says that he saw the pain his father’s other women caused his mother, and that he’d never put his wife through that. plus he’s cute. plus his music is wonderful. plus he’s got beautiful children he dotes on. now that’s a MAN.
@bellaluna: You gotta find the divorce jurisdiction to find the record. If there is one (which there probably isn’t “officially”-that whole alternative lifestyle thing again), this man is a citizen of the world. It could be filed in Miami, Muncie, Mali or Milan. Good luck on finding those records.
@ViktoryGin: Check my comments under Kaiser’s original run of this story. You nailed it, but it’s even deeper than you went. I’m not a fan of these dudes, either, and have no idea how they keep getting away with this crap, especially with women like LH who are talented and wealthy but obviously emotionally/mentally challenged. Where are her peoples? Where’s her momma and daddy’s what I wanna know. She needs help.
And that whole birthin’ a messiah thing keeps striking me. I’m thinking she’s going for 7 kids as 7 is the number of God. Sound familiar, ViktoryGin?:-)
BTW – If you do the math, Marley is attached to LH’s 5 (or 6) kids and two with his wife. I think his father was biologically proven to have 12, but purported to have many, many more. Funny thing is, Isabeli looks like one of Bob’s model jumpoffs/baby mommas. Guess which one?
Apple? Tree? Anyone?
#44:
http://www.celebitchy.com/161681/is_lauryn_hills_sixth_pregnancy_mired_in_paternity_drama/
Those are some ugly looking implants. I thought they had great plastic surgery in Brazil.
http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/seeds-marley
@ Girl:
Those are some ugly looking implants. I thought they had great plastic surgery in Brazil.
We do have great plastic surgeons here. She either hasn’t done it here OR she chose a not so good one. Also some girls want a certain cup size that doesn’t actually fit their figures (that may have been her case).
I personally think her breasts look like that because of that bra.
Anyway, she’s not the nicest girl. I read a couple of her interviews dumb and found her rude: she talked about Karolina Kurkova being “out of shape” when she showed up for one of those São Paulo or Rio fashion weeks — indeed Kurkova had some extra meat on her bones and yes, she showed some cellulites, but I don’t think she was necessarily out of shape (some other people — disclaimer: from the fashion industry — complained it but most didn’t care that much). She wasn’t in her best shape but I think her body still looked sexy.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_gXpTv-Qxs4M/SGSM7zo03rI/AAAAAAAAANE/XuVI6ey1vV0/s1600-h/karolina-kurkova+Brasil.jpg
@ViktoryGin thanks for your comments, I so agree with you!
By the way, the point Fontana was trying to make was that she (Kurkova) was paid a lot of money for being a bikini/lingerie model therefore she had to be in perfect shape. It made sense, however, she was extremely rude when she spoke so openly about it. Being herself a model, she should have been a little more gracious.
More pictures here:
http://chic.ig.com.br/antigo/materias/490001-490500/490192/490192_1.html
Rohan = Married man with 2 kids who dumped family for Lauryn.
Lauryn = Got what she deserved. Stole someone elses husband. Had 5 kids with him and #6 has unknown daddy. No simpathy for her. How the hell do you not name your kids for a year?
Isabeli = 28 and twice divorced, sad but she is beautiful.
I feel sorry for all 8 of the kids, 10 if count Isabeli’s.
Knives out: I’m Jamaican (1st gen) and the sexism of that nation and re-located citizens is gut-rotting. Sex outisde of marriage is a criminal offense worthy of the biggest whoopin’ cutlass you can find…for her. And yet, the number of children born out of wedlock is not insignificant. Where’s he? Iunno. Is he coming back? He lives on in the complaints of those who had kids with him. What’s to be done? Enough’s been done, skanky. Shouldn’t someone feel ashamed? That’s for kids are for! And life without a father, that have huge ramifications. You can’t underestimate the judgement of strangers, the uneasiness of watching the nuclear structure function and the hungriness of children. One frequent strategy is to terrorize kids into being perfect students so this won’t happen to them, and the rest of the time terrorize them into being perfect ladies. And what are boys being taught? All told, that they can get away with it if they always do, right? Guilt is for ovaries.
Huge cultural shifts don’t turn like a 10-speed given a wide berth, they’re like aircraft carriers which are slow are maneouvered with great labour, so to speed. Also, you tell an immigrant ‘here’s what wrong with the homeland’ you’ll get your skull bashed in with a shelaileigh. Nevermind that they left, just expext resistance with that strategy.
Seriously 6 kids? Close your legs girl!!
Rhohan is Bob’s son from Janet Hunt, not his wife Rita Marley… maybe that’s why he does not have the compassion that Ziggy Marley has b/c he saw his poor mother, Rita, put up with a lot of shit. Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE BOB MARLEY; however, if I was Rita, I’d kill him for sticking his D*** in so many other women.
I also think that some cultures accept the man multiplying his seed with multiple women, but do not allow that for the women. They must be proper, but the hubbies can do as they please. To each his/her own. Lauren had not 1, but 5 (or 6) children with this guy. Let’s not now say that she didn’t know he was a womanizer if he left or cheated on his wife to be with Hill in the 1st place. Hill is known to have some issues herself. I love her though and find her talent limitless. She was always unique to me. Hope this brings her back to her music!!!!
Rohan is definitely a douchebag of highest magnitude, but he’s usually good about acknowledging his offspring. If he’s denying paternity of this baby, he must have cause.
For example, I remember when Lauryn got pregnant with the first baby that there was initially some question about whether Rohan or Wyclef Jean (also married) was the father.
Neither Lauryn nor Rohan are particularly nice people, so I hope they’re at least good to the kids.
skkkkkkkkketchyyyyyyy
Oh yeah, sexism and mental difficulties aside, if she were a member of my family I would’ve had words with this little girl a long time ago. Wedlock doesn’t count if it’s not the people within the marriage having the babies. Lauryn needs to take a nap, and while she’s sleeping someone can put the dignity and respect back into her while someone delivers a few home truths to these gigolo-papas. At least I’ve never heard anything that calls the parenting into question, but maybe it (as an earlier poster said) truly is a case of ‘insane by any other colour’. I hope not.
Her lipstick in that top photo is fascinating.
@ your mama:
Ever seen a picture of Mama Janet? The Brazilian will might make a little more sense after you do.
Roots (Rock, Reggae): The Next Generation
The role of Rita Marley will be played by LBoogie. Janet Hunt will be played by Isabeli Fontana.
PS – It is reported that Rita had a child from an affair that Bob accepted as his own because she always accepted his side kids. Not exactly feminism, but it does explain why Rohan might be so mad if he is NOT THE FATHER. It’s the last generation all over again, right down to the side kids.
FWIW, Wikipedia says the oldest kid was Janet’s from a prior relationship and Bob Marley adopted her.
Lauryn Hill has finally publicly admitted that her youngest child is NOT Rohan’s son: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2011/07/lauryn-hill-calls-rohan-marley-mr.html
lauryn is flat out GHETTO! stop making her out to be some incredible woman of the decade..any woman with a 1/2 a brain would have ran after the 2nd kid…STOP popping out kids with men that want nothing to do with you and that goes for all women of ALL races..be a woman of integrity..she stated herself that “the father of my children and I go through long periods of separation and are not together most of the time” DUH! then get on birth control or have him wear a friggin condom! what is wrong with women?? total trailer trash SMH! yes, she’s trailer trash…stop reproducing and bringing children in the world under circumstances that you create yourself..be a friggin woman w/ morals and class..I find her, her lifestyle and her self respect for herself truly disgusting..set an example for women and especially women of color! you are a disgrace Lauryn!