Mary's nephew, Macaulay's father or Madonna's brother: when the enemy is in the family

The arrest of Antonio Tejado for alleged membership in a gang that had robbed the home of his aunt, the popular singer María del Monte, has once again merged the black chronicle and the Spanish pink chronicle.

Tejado is a regular character in the pink (and yellow) television chronicle thanks to being the father of Rosario Mohedano's son (Rocío Jurado's niece in turn) and his participation in several

reality shows.

His arrest has shocked public opinion because he is a dear relative of the singer, but it was not the first nor the last case of betrayal of a famous figure of culture or the tabloid press by someone of the same blood, whether in the form of a criminal offense or personal revenge by airing their private life.

Macaulay Culkin and his father Kit Culkin in 1993.Ron Galella (Ron Galella Collection via Getty)

Kit Culkin, the father of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin

The tradition of child artists whose parents see them as a mix of ATM and pension plan is as old as show business.

One of the first child film stars, Jackie Coogan, star of

The Boy

with Charlie Chaplin, would become infamous for giving its name to the “Coogan law”: when she reached the age of 21, Jackie discovered that her mother had squandered the money. money he had earned, estimated at about four million dollars.

Although he never recovered that amount, the young man's demand crystallized into a law that required safeguarding an amount of minors' income until they came of age.

Even so, cases similar to Coogan's have been repeated with sad assiduity.

Perhaps the best known is Macaulay Culkin, who became a star at age 10 when he starred

in Home Alone

.

Macaulay would describe his father, Kit Culkin, as a “mentally and physically” violent person who abused him and did not respect his desire to work less (in the middle of puberty) and therefore, reduce his income, those that had made the entire family. family went from precariousness to wealth.

“My father was jealous of me.

Everything that he had tried to achieve throughout his life, I achieved before I was 10 years old,” Macaulay would confess.

Just in case, Kit was repeating the move of casting two more of her children, Kieran and Rory.

When Kit Culkin and his wife Patricia Brentrup divorced, a violent dispute broke out over the custody of their seven children and especially over control of the trust fund built with the money earned by Macaulay.

Patricia won, and Kit disappeared from family life, claiming that she no longer considered Macaulay her son.

Over the years, Macaulay moved away from show business and it has been his brother Kieran who has stood out in it.

When he received a Golden Globe in 2024 for his role in the series

Succession

, Kieran dedicated it “to my wonderful mother.

Mom, thank you for everything you have done for us.

You are an incredible woman".

Ronald Fenty and his children, the singer and businesswoman Rihanna and Rajad Fenty in 2012.Lester Cohen (WireImage)

Ronald Fenty, Rihanna's father

Rihanna's childhood in Barbados was far from idyllic.

Her father, Ronald Fenty, was addicted to crack and alcohol, and abused her mother, Monica Braithwaite: Rihanna's relationship with her father has been full of ups and downs, fights and reconciliations, typical of a situation of codependency marked by a father addicted.

Many even saw her past with an abusive parent as one of the reasons why Rihanna had an abusive relationship with singer Chris Brown.

In any case, Ronald cannot accuse Rihanna of being vindictive: in 2008, the singer bought him a mansion in Barbados for $1.8 million.

That same year, Ronald was kicked off his daughter's tour for her drunken behavior;

She paid for the rehabilitation that prevented him from going to prison.

In 2014, at the Diamond Ball gala organized by the artist, Ronald appeared drunk and fell on the red carpet, from which he was discreetly expelled.

The conflicts entered the judicial field in 2017;

That year it was learned that Ronald had attempted to register a company as Fenty, which was not only his legal last name but also the name of his daughter's million-dollar makeup and lingerie company.

The singer's lawyers prevented her from doing so, considering that it would lower the value of the Rihanna brand.

But they didn't know to what extent she was doing it.

In 2019, the singer filed a lawsuit against her father and her partner Moses Perkins after discovering that she was posing as her agent to negotiate her concerts for more than $15 million behind her back.

In September 2021, shortly before the trial began, the singer withdrew the lawsuit.

The previous year, when he was infected with COVID, Ronald claimed to have saved his life thanks to Rihanna buying him a respirator.

Maybe that's the solution he's found: having his father close to him but not too close.

A good example is the moment when Rihanna announced her second pregnancy.

She did it by showing her belly at halftime of the 2023 Superbowl. Ronald didn't know anything and found out at the same time as everyone else... but from a seat that his daughter had sent him to watch the show.

Madonna and her brother Christopher Ciccone in Paris in 1990.ARNAL (Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Christopher Ciccone, Madonna's brother

From younger brother to professional collaborator and, from there, to sworn enemy.

Christopher Ciccone's career is inseparable from that of his sister.

Since Madonna's early successes in the music industry, Christopher worked for her as a personal assistant, artistic director and decorator.

According to him, she needed a person of extreme trust and she knew that she could count on her brother.

Everything faded when Madonna did not hire him for her

Drowned World

tour in 2001.

As Christopher told in detail in his 2008 book

Living with My Sister Madonna

, it all stemmed from her marriage to Guy Ritchie.

Christopher claimed that her brother-in-law was homophobic and had caused the estrangement between them, which broke out when she accused him of having scammed her "after 20 years of being the only person who had not done so."

In the book, he accused his sister of paying him less than what she was entitled to for her work, of having outed him against his will, and reproached her for taking care of his 97-year-old blind grandmother with barely $500 a month and payment of your medical bills.

According to some American media, the relationship has recovered in recent years.

Kiko Rivera and Isabel Pantoja in 2019.Europa Press Entertainment (Europa Press via Getty Images)

Kiko Rivera and her mother, Isabel Pantoja

Kiko Rivera and her mother, the tonadillera Isabel Pantoja, had always had an apparently happy relationship.

Together they would have overcome his drug addictions and her imprisonment.

But in November 2020, Kiko surprised with a series of interviews on Telecinco fictionally titled

Cantora, the poisoned inheritance

.

In them she claimed that her mother had mortgaged and sold parts of what belonged to him from the inheritance of his father, the bullfighter Paquirri.

She also claimed to have found the deceased's capes and bullfighting suits that her brothers Fran and Cayetano claimed from Pantoja and that according to her had been stolen.

Since then, and despite Rivera's health problems (she suffered a stroke in the fall of 2022), mother and son have not spoken.

Joan Crawford and her daughter Christina, then 7 years old.Bettmann (Bettmann Archive)

Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's daughter

When the actress Joan Crawford died in 1977, it was discovered that she had distributed her inheritance in a strikingly unequal manner.

The bulk of the money went to her twin daughters, Cindy and Cathy, while the eldest, Christina and Christopher, received nothing.

The will included the misleading phrase “for reasons well known to them.”

Soon Christina made sure the rest of the world was aware of these reasons as well.

A year later, Dearest Mom

went on sale

, a memoir in which Christina put two and a half times the memory of her mother and that would become the yardstick with which to measure all the scandalous biographies of the stars.

To begin with, it revealed that the Hollywood star had

bought

her illegally, breaking the law that prevented single women from adopting;

She also claimed that she first called her Joan and then baptized her Christina, at her whim, and that her younger sisters were not actually twins, but that her mother decided to label them as such because she wanted them to. they were.

This erratic and irresponsible behavior was, according to the book, a constant, along with beatings and hysterical fits of cleaning.

She accused her of being controlling, obsessive, jealous and stingy with money.

The climax came when Christina, who also tried to be an actress, said that Joan had stolen a role from her in a soap opera, replacing her when she fell ill, wearing makeup and dressing up to look 30 years younger.

The book (and its subsequent film adaptation in the

trash

classic starring Faye Dunaway in 1981) sparked an enormous debate between those who saw in it a pack of lies and exaggerations (Crawford's youngest daughters defended their mother) and those who They considered it one of the first public allegations of child abuse.

The success gave rise to a bizarre trend of scandalous memoirs by other famous children, such as

My Mother's Keeper

, by BD Hyman, daughter of Bette Davis, who had precisely been a great rival of Crawford and still expressed her deep displeasure when it was published.

Dearest mom

.

Beyonce Knowles and her father Matthew Knowles in 2005.Frank Micelotta (Getty Images)

Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyoncé and Solange

Having your father be your manager is a double-edged path.

Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian or Venus and Serena Williams know it.

Both possibilities, success and failure, can lead to the destruction of the filial relationship.

Mathew Knowles was selling clinical equipment when his eldest daughter, Beyoncé, turned out to have a great talent for singing and dancing.

The girl was only 11 years old, but her father left his profession to dedicate full time to her daughter's group, Girl's Tyme.

He changed its name, eliminated its least likely participants, and directed his professional career with an iron fist until he achieved Destiny's Child fame.

Over time, former members of the group would accuse Mathew of favoring Beyoncé and misappropriating money, something he has always denied, although he has defended the harshness with which he first directed the group and then his daughter alone as the only way to achieve such success.

The family-business partnership took a serious blow in 2009, when Mathew and Tina Knowles separated after it was discovered that he had fathered a child with his lover, actress Alexandra Wright.

Two years later, Beyoncé and her father announced that he was no longer her manager.

The official statement is that it was a friendly decision, but

TMZ

published that through an audit, the singer's lawyers discovered that her father had stolen money from her tours.

Mathew Knowles followed a similar path as the representative of his youngest daughter, Solange, with whom he also ended up breaking off his professional relationship.

When Mathew married Gina Avery in 2013, none of his daughters attended the wedding.

Always cryptic when it comes to public statements, Beyoncé has spoken through her music, comparing the power and influence of her husband in her life with that of her father on the album Lemonade

,

with passages such as “Did he forget your own name?

Did he convince you that he was a god?”

Currently, Mathew claims to have a great family relationship between father and grandfather (although he has rarely been seen with his daughters in recent years) and is dedicated to being a lecturer, entrepreneur (in cannabis, among other businesses) and activist against breast cancer in men.

Angelina Jolie and her father Jon Voight in 2011. Kevin Winter (Getty Images)

Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie's father

When Angelina Jolie became famous in the mid-nineties, her father Jon Voight's golden years were long behind her.

The actor, winner of an Oscar in 1979 for

The Return

, suddenly found himself becoming “Angelina's father.”

And his use of the title has not been very flattering.

The relationship between the two has been marked by fights and reconciliations and Voight's constant criticism of his daughter before the press.

The disagreement began very soon.

Angelina was only one year old when Voight left her family to go with student Stacey Pickren.

In Jolie's version, her father neglected her and her brother both emotionally and financially, and only remembered them when he could show them off on a red carpet.

Becoming a wild star in the then mellifluous Hollywood scene, Jolie found herself criticized on multiple occasions by her father, who did not view favorably her bisexuality and her taste for sealing her love with blood, literally.

They filmed Tomb Raider

together

, but it did not help her relationship improve: according to him, she refused to see him;

According to her, he was aggressive and did not respect her.

The press learned that Angelina had adopted her eldest son Maddox in Cambodia because Jon announced that he was looking forward to meeting her grandson, which blew up the discretion she sought.

On other occasions, he claimed that Angelina had serious mental problems.

Since then, with Angelina's life always in the eye of the hurricane, the presence of her father in her life has been ambivalent.

The penultimate example of her complex relationship has been Voight's criticism of Angelina's statements of concern for civilians in Gaza.

Cover of the American tabloid magazine Star in which Meghan Markle's sister, Samantha, tells intimate things about her sister.

Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle's sister

In the explosive cocktail of family relationships that explode in the air that has been the history of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, several people could accuse each other of betrayal: Enrique to William and William to Enrique, without going any further.

But few characters embody the fame-hungry celebrity relative archetype as well as Samantha Markle, the Duchess of Sussex's sister on her father's side.

According to this, her relationship with Samantha would have been practically non-existent throughout her life, except when she became engaged to Prince Henry of England and her media began to delve into her family tree.

And they found Samantha.

According to Meghan, Samantha changed her last name again to Markle to make it easier to link her to her, and dedicated herself to selling lies to the press and disseminating intimate information, in the same way that the father of both Thomases did.

Samantha soon published her own book, The

Diary

of Princess Pushy's Sister

, in which she argued that Meghan orchestrated a smear campaign against her and her father.

She went so far as to sue her sister for £75,000 for spreading “demonstrably false and malicious statements” in her interview with Oprah.

Samantha accused Meghan of lying by saying that she was her only child and exaggerating her poverty during her childhood.

The lawsuit was dismissed several times, but Samantha's attorneys continue to try to take the case to trial.

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