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Rohan Marley

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Rohan Marley
Marley in 2012
Born
Rohan Anthony Marley

(1972-05-19) 19 May 1972 (age 54)
Kingston, Jamaica[1]
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • former football player
Spouses
Geraldine Khawly
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(m. 1993; div. 1996)​
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(m. 2019; div. 2020)​
PartnersLauryn Hill (1996–2009)
Maytee Martinez (2024–present; engaged)
Children12, including Nico, Selah & YG
FatherBob Marley
RelativesSharon Marley (half-sister)
Cedella Marley (half-sister)
Ziggy Marley (half-brother)
Stephen Marley (half-brother)
Julian Marley (half-brother)
Ky-Mani Marley (half-brother)
Damian Marley (half-brother)
Bambaata Marley (half-nephew)
Jo Mersa Marley (half-nephew)
Skip Marley (half-nephew)
Donisha Prendergast (half-niece)
Olivier Vernon (son-in-law)
Websiterohanmarley.com
marleycoffee.com
houseofmarley.com

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 model Selah Marley, reggae artist YG Marley, and former American football player Nico Marley.

Early life and education

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Rohan 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[2][3][4] until moving to live with his paternal grandmother Cedella Booker after his father died of cancer in Miami in 1981.[5]

He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest, Florida, where he graduated in 1991.[6] 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.[1]

Career

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The Rastapreneur

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Rohan Marley has spent two decades translating legacy into action, building businesses across cannabis, coffee, hospitality, and lifestyle that carry his father Bob Marley's message of unity, empowerment, and hope into new industries.[7] That range is exactly what makes him a distinctive voice: few people move as fluidly between boardrooms, dispensary launches, coffee farms, and cultural stages as Rohan does.

Guided by the Rastafari principle that "it's not who you are but how you are," Rohan built his career on self-actualization, purpose, and alignment — ideas he applies as readily to entrepreneurship as to identity, wellness, and community. He's built and scaled Marley Coffee from a 52-acre Blue Mountains estate into an international brand,[8][9] developed RoMarley Beachhouse as a wellness-driven hospitality concept,[10] and most recently launched Lion Order — his cannabis lifestyle brand, as a founding partner within ACE Venture's New York cannabis platform in April 2026, alongside cultural anchors like Kareem "Biggs" Burke and Gee Roberson.[11][12]

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He made an appearance in the 2010 documentary film Motherland.[13]

Personal life

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On 18 March 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Miami, Marley married his girlfriend Geraldine Khawly. They had a daughter and a son, Nico Marley, who was a linebacker at Tulane and was signed by the Washington Redskins in 2017.[14][15]

Marley met musician Lauryn Hill in 1996, and they had five children including model Selah Marley and singer songwriter Joshua Omaru, known professionally as YG Marley.[16][17][18] 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.[19]

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.[20]

In early 2013, Marley was briefly engaged to Isabeli Fontana, but the engagement ended in early 2013.[21]

On 23 March 2019, Marley married Brazilian model Barbara Fialho in Montes Claros, Brazil,[22] five months before the birth of their daughter.[23] Marley divorced Fialho the following year.[24][25]

References

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  1. 1 2 Bruce Newman. "Hurricane From The Caribbean". Sports Illustrated. 13 September 1993. Retrieved on 30 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Moskowitz, David Vlado (2007). Bob Marley: A Biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-0313338793. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Raul (26 July 2011). "Bob Marley All His Children & 9 Baby Mommas". FeelNumb.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Dokubo, Titi (5 September 2022). "Most of Bob Marley's 12 Children Followed in His Footsteps". news.amomama.com. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Vecsey, George (29 December 1992). "Sports of the Times; Sugar Bowl Rocks Early With Strains of Marley". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  6. ↑ David O'Brien. "This Marley's music has more pop to it". Sun Sentinel. 3 September 1991. 1.C. Retrieved on 8 August 2009.
  7. ↑ "Bob Marley's Son Builds a Coffee Empire". American Marketing Association. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Marley Coffee set to stir it up". Jamaica Observer. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Bob Marley's Son Builds a Coffee Empire". American Marketing Association. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "RoMarley Beach House". RoMarley Beach House. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "ACE Venture completes 51% acquisition of Vireo Health New York". MMJ Daily. 7 May 2026. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Lion Order". Lion Order. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Motherland Film with Rohan Marley". Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  14. ↑ "Tulane Green Wave Football". Archived from the original on 29 August 2014.
  15. ↑ Czarda, Stephen. "Redskins Sign Linebacker Nico Marley". Redskins.com. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  16. ↑ Laura Checkoway."Inside 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'". Rolling Stone. August
  17. ↑ "Essence Magazine". Vol. 33, no. 3.
  18. ↑ Tiffany McGee and Alex Tresniowski (18 August 2008). "Whatever Happened to ... Lauryn Hill?". People Magazine.
  19. ↑ "Rohan Marley will take care of kids when Lauryn goes to jail". The Master Copy. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014.
  20. ↑ "Exclusive: Rohan Marley Sets the Record Straight". The Avah Taylor Company. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "Rohan Marley Ends Engagement". iriefm.net. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014.
  22. ↑ "Inside Rohan Marley's Romantic Brazilian Wedding to Victoria's Secret Model Barbara Fialho". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  23. ↑ "Barbara Fialho on Instagram: "Maria"". Instagram. 18 December 2020. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  24. ↑ "Barbara Fialho diz: "Minha relação com a família Marley é linda"". L'Officiel Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  25. ↑ "Top internacional Bárbara Fialho relembra perda de trabalho e divórcio do filho de Bob Marley: 'Tudo desmoronou' | Gente". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 October 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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