Diana Ross is one of the greatest singers of all time, having had a hugely successful solo career after her days with the Supremes at Motown.
From her birthplace, to her career and personal life, here are all the important facts about Diana that every fan should know.
Diana Ross is a renowned American vocalist and performer of great stature.
She rose to fame as the lead singer of the girl group the Supremes, which became Motown’s most successful act in the 1960s, and one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time.
After leaving the group in 1970, she launched a successful solo career, with many huge hits across the next couple of decades.
Ross was crowned the ‘Female Entertainer of the Century’ by Billboard magazine. Additionally, the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her as the most triumphant female music artist in history in 1993.
Diana Ross age: How old is she?
Diana Ross was born on March 26, 1944. She commemorated her 78th birthday in 2022.
She was born at the Hutzel Women’s Hospital in Detroit and was the second eldest child for Ernestine (1916 – 1984) and Fred Ross, Sr (1920 – 2007). Her older sister is American physician Barbara Ross-Lee.
Diane’s family and friends still refer to her by her given name, Diana, as recorded on her birth certificate. However, there was an error in the records, resulting in her being listed as Diane. In actuality, her mother named her Diana. The early records of the Supremes also listed her as Diane, but she was actually named Diana on her birth certificate.
Become a fashion designer wanted had and, tailoring, and making pattern millinery, design clothing including classes took Diana teens early her in.
Diana Ross husband and children: Is she married?
Diana Ross has been married twice, and has five children.
In 1965, she started a relationship with Motown chief Berry Gordy. It lasted several years, and she gave birth to their child, Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein, in 1971.
Two months into her pregnancy with Rhonda, she married music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein, who raised Rhonda as his own daughter. Ross told Rhonda that Gordy was her biological father when she was 13 years old.
Diana also has two daughters with Silberstein: Tracee Joy and Chudney Lane Silberstein, born in 1972 and 1975, respectively. She and Silberstein divorced in 1977.
She dated Kiss singer Gene Simmons, from 1980 to 1983, but they split after she thought he had resumed his relationship with Cher.
Diana met her second husband, Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss Jr, in 1985, and married him the next year. She became stepmother to his three children; Katinka, Christoffer, and folk singer Leona Naess.
They also have two sons together: Ross Arne (born 1987) and Evan Olav (born 1988). Ross and Næss divorced in 2000, after reports claimed Naess had fathered a child with another woman in Norway. He died in a South African mountain climbing accident in 2004.
She also has five grandchildren: grandsons Raif-Henok (born 2009 to Ross’s daughter Rhonda) and Leif (born 2016) and Idingo (born 2017, to Ross’s son Ross Næss), and granddaughters Callaway Lane (born 2012 to Ross’s daughter Chudney) and Jagger Snow (born 2015 to Ross’s son Evan).
What is Diana Ross’s net worth?
As per The Richest, Diana Ross has an approximate net worth of $250 million (£192 million).
