We were both rushed to hospital but Bob still refused to cancel the concert. "I really thought I was dead," says Rita. Bob Marley got away with a bullet in the elbow. Just days before the concert, Rita left the studio, got into her car and was shot in the head by a group of youths. In late 1976, Bob Marley agreed to do a peace concert in Kingston, Jamaica. Rita's devotion to her husband was such that she appeared on stage with him days after being shot in the head and left for dead. It wasn't unusual for Rita to be pregnant and for another woman to be carrying his child at the same time. If the record company asked him to pretend he wasn't married so as not to disappoint the fans, he happily referred to Rita as his sister. We were friends and lovers we put love first."īob Marley may have provided for Rita and their children - including the illegitimate daughter she had before they met, and Ziggy and Rohan, now married to R&B artist Lauryn Hill - but he was no saint. It was my first marriage and I grew with it. We weren't the first couple it happened to and I'm sure we won't be the last. "It was no secret! It's not unusual, you know. Mention the endless line of women queuing up to sleep with her husband and she howls with laughter. Much of her book documents Bob Marley's legendary womanising Rita claims to have kept calm at nearly all times. Rita Marley may have been criticised for fighting for control of her late husband's estate and she may even have been accused of being a crook, but the fact is that she stood by her man from the day they were married to the day he died.Īs she struggled to leave behind her ghetto roots - she was born and raised in Trench Town - she stood by him as he had affairs, and children, with other women. And then we went to the High Court here in London and won the judge ruled that the beneficiaries should own Bob's name and likeness." Eventually, Chris secured a bank loan for us. Dear Michael Jackson, Could you please lend us some money?" "There was a time when Bob's mother, Cedella, was writing to everyone. Rita explains how, shortly after his death, she had to borrow money to buy back Bob's name and his likeness from the estate. For some, the son of a black working-class Jamaican and a white middle-class English Naval officer was a prophet, a spiritual leader, the ultimate emblem of black pride. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīob was the first reggae artist to gain international success and a devout Rastafarian with strong political views.“This occurred as the pressure grew on her around the New York case, where she took from Don Taylor $30,000,000 U.S dollars of Robert Marley’s money and was tried and found guilty of fraud along with David Steinberg, Marvin Zolt and deceased Louis Byles respectively. “It was again Rita on September 11th 1987 who again joined with Dennis “Leppo” Loban to kill Peter Tosh, Free I and Peter’s doctor along with injuring Carlton “Santa” Davis, Peter’s drummer, Marlene Brown and Free I’s wife respectively,” Bunny Wailer said in his lengthy letter. This in the facilitating environment of 1976-1980 when the CIA placed an unusually large station in Jamaica, destabilizing the Government of Michael Manley and his supporters through the music that would have had ‘The Wailers’/Bob Marley as a target.”īunny Wailer also accused Rita Marley of plotting to kill Wailers band member Peter Tosh, who was murdered at his home. “This drug was given to Rita by Lloyd Christopher Blackwell to commit murder. “On May 11th 1981, Bob Marley died from Radio Active Ash given to him by Rita,” Wailer said. History told us that Bob Marley died from cancer, but according to Bunny Wailer, he died from radioactive ash given to him by his wife Rita and Christopher Blackwell. Bunny Wailer hatred for Rita Marley is no secret but in a new letter published by the reggae legend, he went a step further to accused Bob Marley’s of murdering the Jamaican music icon.
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