Who is the father of Aretha Franklin’s first born son?
Who is the father of Aretha Franklin’s first born son?
She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. In one of her handwritten wills, discovered in 2019, Franklin revealed that the father was Edward Jordan.
Who fathered Aretha Franklin’s second child?
But one of the wills states that Clarence’s father was Edward Jordan Sr., with whom she also had her second son, Edward, in 1957. Little is known about Edward Jordan Sr., and Franklin rarely discussed her first two pregnancies.
Did Aretha Franklin marry the father of her children?
Aretha married twice, first to Theodore ‘Ted’ White in 1961 aged 19. After a difficult marriage that involved domestic violence, they separated in 1968. She then married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, in 1978, and became stepmother of Turman’s three children from a previous marriage.
