Chaka Fattah - Personal Life

Personal Life

His current wife is Renee Chenault-Fattah, a local Philadelphia television news broadcaster on WCAU-TV (NBC 10). He is the father of three daughters, Frances, Cameron and Chandler, and one son, Chaka Fattah Jr.

In 2002, he was named to the PoliticsPA list of Best Dressed Legislators, noting his "excellence in haberdashery."

He has also proclaimed that NASA's voting contest for naming rights for a module on the International Space Station should be honored by naming one "Colbert" in honor of TV personality Stephen Colbert.

On February 29, 2012, FBI agents raided the home of Fattah's son, Chaka Fattah Jr.

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