Rohan Anthony Marley (born 19 May 1972) is a Jamaican entrepreneur and former college football and Canadian Football League player.
He is the son of reggae artist Bob Marley, and father of model Selah Marley, reggae artist YG Marley and former NFL football player Nico Marley.
Marley was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 19 May 1972.
1981
He was born to 16 year old Janet Hunt during his father's marriage to singer Rita Marley and went to live with her on and off from the age of four until moving to live with Marley's mother after his father died of cancer in Miami in 1981.
1991
He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School, and graduated in 1991.
He then attended the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, where he played linebacker for the University of Miami football team.
1993
In 1993, he led the Hurricanes' defense with 95 tackles.
After his college football career at the University of Miami, Marley entered the Canadian Football League, where he played for the Ottawa Rough Riders.
On 18 March 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Miami, Marley married his girlfriend Geraldine Khawly.
1994
They had a daughter, Eden (b. 1994), and a son, Nico (b. 1995), who was a linebacker at Tulane and was signed by the Washington Redskins in 2017.
1996
Marley met musician Lauryn Hill in 1996, and they had five children: Zion David (b. 1997), model Selah (b. 1998), Joshua Omaru (b. 2001), John Nesta (b. 2003), and Sara (b. 2008).
2003
In 2003, Rolling Stone suggested that Marley had never divorced Khawly.
2009
In 2009, he co-founded Marley Coffee, an organic coffee plantation and sustainable farming business in Jamaica's Blue Mountains, although the majority of coffee sourced through Marley Coffee is from Ethiopia.
The business is run on a 52-acre estate in Portland Parish.
Marley and Hill lived apart for most of their relationship, which ended in 2009.
2011
In 2011, Marley Coffee went public under the name Jammin Java (OTC:JAMN).
In January 2011, Marley advertised a new 'House of Marley' range of eco-friendly headphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The range has since expanded and now produces headphones and speakers as well as turntables.
Marley also helps run his family's charitable organization, 1Love, as well as the Tuff Gong clothing company.
He made an appearance in the documentary film Motherland.
However, in 2011, Marley produced a Haitian divorce decree which demonstrated that he had divorced Khawly in 1996.
2013
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.
In early 2013, Marley was briefly engaged to Isabeli Fontana, but the engagement ended in early 2013.
2019
On 23 March 2019, Marley married Brazilian model Barbara Fialho in Montes Claros, Brazil, five months before the birth of their daughter Maria.
