Rohan Marley

Rohan Anthony Marley (born 19 May 1972) is a Jamaican businessman and former football player. He is the son of reggae artist Bob Marley, and the father of Zion Marley, model Selah Marley, reggae artist YG Marley, and former American football player Nico Marley.

Early life and education

Marley was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 19 May 1972. He was born out of wedlock from an affair that his father had with sixteen-year-old Janet Hunt during his marriage to singer Rita Marley. Rohan Marley went to live with his mother Janet on and off from the age of four until moving to live with his paternal grandmother Cedella Booker after his father died of cancer in Miami in 1981.

He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest, Florida, where he graduated in 1991. He then attended the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he played linebacker for the University of Miami football team. In the 1993 season, Marley led the Hurricanes' defense with 95 tackles.

Career

After his college football career at the University of Miami, Marley entered the Canadian Football League, where he played seven games for the Ottawa Rough Riders during the 1995 season.

In 2009, he co-founded Marley Coffee, an organic coffee plantation and sustainable farming business in Jamaica's Blue Mountains, although the majority of coffee sourced through Marley Coffee is from Ethiopia. The business is run on a 52-acre estate in Portland Parish. In 2011, Marley Coffee went public under the name Jammin Java (OTC:JAMN).

In January 2011, Marley advertised a new 'House of Marley' range of eco-friendly headphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The range has since expanded and now produces headphones and speakers as well as turntables.
, ''Financial Post'', 5 January 2011

Marley also helps run his family's charitable organization, 1Love, as well as the Tuff Gong clothing company.

In popular culture

He made an appearance in the 2010 documentary film ''Motherland''.

Personal life

On 18 March 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Miami, Marley married his girlfriend Geraldine Khawly. They had a daughter, Eden (b. 1994), and a son, Nico (b. 1995), who was a linebacker at Tulane and was signed by the Washington Redskins in 2017.

Marley met musician Lauryn Hill in 1996, and they had five children: Zion David (b. 1997), model Selah (b. 1998), singer songwriter Joshua Omaru, known professionally as YG Marley (b. 2001), John Nesta (b. 2003), and Sara (b. 2008). Marley and Hill lived apart for most of their relationship, which ended in 2009. Marley provided temporary custody for their five children while Hill served a three-month prison sentence for tax evasion in 2013. While Hill sometimes referred to Marley as her husband, they never legally married.

In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' suggested that Marley had never divorced Khawly. However, in 2011, Marley produced a Haitian divorce decree which demonstrated that he had divorced Khawly in 1996.

In early 2013, Marley was briefly engaged to Isabeli Fontana, but the engagement ended in early 2013.

On 23 March 2019, Marley married Brazilian model Barbara Fialho in Montes Claros, Brazil, five months before the birth of their daughter Maria. Marley divorced Fialho the following year.

References

External links

Rohan Marley
at Twitter

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1972 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Canadian football linebackers
Jamaican businesspeople
Jamaican people of English descent
Jamaican players of American football
Jamaican Rastafarians
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Miami Hurricanes football players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Players of American football from Kingston, Jamaica
University of Miami Business School alumni