Ronnie Spector siblings: Meet Estelle Bennett
The identity of her parents and other information about them have come up a lot in the wake of Ronnie Spector’s passing on social media.
American actress and singer Ronnie Spector, whose birth name was Veronica Greenfield, co-founded the Ronettes in 1957 with her older sister Estelle Bennett and a distant relative named Nedra Talley.
Phil Spector, a record producer and Ronnie Spector’s ex-husband, created the majority of the band’s music while Bennett served as its leader.
3 of Ronnie Spector’s 5 children from her first marriage to Phil Spector were adopted. The three adoptive kids were Donte Phillip Spector, Gary Phillip Spector, and Louis Phillip Spector.
Ronnie Spector siblings: Meet Estelle Bennett
American vocalist Estelle Bennett lived from July 22, 1941, through February 11, 2009. Along with her sister Ronnie and cousin Nedra Talley, Bennett was a part of the girl group known as the Ronettes. Bennett was raised in New York City along with her sister, Veronica, who would later go by the names Ronnie Bennett and Ronnie Spector. They said they were bullied at school because they were light-skinned African Americans; they were the children of an Irish-American father and an African-American/Cherokee mother. Bennett graduated as valedictorian from Manhattan’s George Washington High School. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan as a diligent student with a passion for fashion.
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