Personal Life
During her early Motown career, rumors had spread that Ross had brief flings with some Motown executives, including Brian Holland. Around 1965, Ross began dating Motown CEO Berry Gordy. The affair reportedly lasted several years and resulted in the birth of Ross' eldest child, Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein, in August 1971. A month after she was first pregnant with Rhonda, in January of 1971, Ross married music executive Robert Ellis Silberstein. Ross gave her first husband's surname to her daughter. It was stated that Ross' marriage to Silberstein was a "business arrangement". Rhonda didn't learn the truth until she was 13. With Silberstein, Ross had two daughters, Tracey Joy and Chudney Lane Silberstein, born in 1972 and 1975 respectively. Ross and Silberstein divorced in 1977 and Ross relocated to New York in the early 1980s after years living in Los Angeles. Ross briefly dated actor Ryan O'Neal as well as rock musician Gene Simmons. Ross met her second husband, billionaire Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss, Jr. in 1985 and married him the following year, later having boys Ross Arne and Evan Olav. They divorced in 2000. Næss was later killed in a mountain climbing accident in 2004, Ross attended his funeral. With the exception of Ross, all of her children use their mother's surname as their stage name. Ross is a grandmother of two: her daughter Rhonda gave birth to a son, Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick in August 2009. In September 2012, daughter Chudney gave birth to daughter Calloway Lane.
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