Diana Ross has five children — daughters Rhonda Ross Kendrick, Chudney Ross, and Tracee Ellis Ross, and sons Evan Ross, and Ross Naess. The boys were fathered by Ross’s second husband, Arne Naess Jr., and are the youngest of her kids. Her daughters were all presumed to have been the kids of her first husband, Robert Ellis Silberstein, which was the party line for a long time. But while Silberstein is the biological father of Chudney and Tracee, Rhonda was revealed to be someone else’s kid. So, who is her actual father? None other than the legendary Berry Gordy, who signed The Supremes in 1961.
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Ross was already pregnant when she married Silberstein in 1971, and though he knew about the pregnancy (and many suspected the child was Gordy’s), they kept it all under wraps for well over a decade. “The bottom line was, I looked just like [Gordy], and my sisters looked just like their father, a 6-foot-tall Jewish American man,” Ross Kendrick told the New York Post in 2015. Despite that, Ross Kendrick did not learn that the man she called uncle was actually her father until she was nearly in her teens. It is unclear exactly when the secret became confirmed publicly, but Ross Kendrick’s true parentage is now a widely reported fact.
