Richard Lawson: 5 Things About Tina Knowles’ Ex After She Files For Divorce

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Image Credit: RCF/Everett Collection Tina Knowles is the celebrated parent of popular fable Beyonce She joined histrion Richard Lawson successful 2015 On July 26, quality emerged Tina filed for divorcement aft 8 years of marriage

Tina Knowles, 69, and Richard Lawson, 76, joined successful 2015, astatine the tallness of her girl Beyonce‘s fame. But it wasn’t meant to be, arsenic the manner decorator filed for divorce against him connected July 26, 2023, per TMZ. She cited the emblematic “irreconcilable differences” and claimed their day of separation to beryllium yesterday, July 25.

Information connected the divided is presently scarce, but the highly respected entrepreneur did petition that the tribunal terminate immoderate quality to grant spousal enactment to either party, and requested that her sanction beryllium changed legally backmost to Celestine Knowles. Amid quality that the Hollywood powerfulness mates are parting ways, here’s what to cognize astir Richard Lawson, the antheral who was Beyonce’s stepfather for 8 years.

He served successful Vietnam

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According to his Wikipedia page, Richard (nee Rickey Lee Lawson) was wounded successful enactment successful Vietnam, wherever helium served 21 months with the United States Army. He besides became a medic during that time, and possibly astir impressively, earned a Purple Heart. 

“I didn’t privation to die,” helium said successful a July 1992 interrogation with Ebony of a peculiar representation of his clip successful Vietnam. “It was my birthday, my 21st birthday, and I didn’t privation to observe it with a bullet. This peculiar time was memorable due to the fact that we were successful the mediate of a dense occurrence combat and though I had faced decease astir each day, I was particularly frightened due to the fact that I didn’t privation to dice connected my birthday. Bullets were flying each astir me. I was acrophobic of dying.”

Richard is an actor

Richard is simply a prolific and accomplished actor. He appeared successful household sanction films and TV shows implicit the years, including fearfulness classical Poltergeist, beloved ABC soap opera All My Children, primetime soap Dynasty, drama deed The Bernie Mac Show, and classical 1983 NBC miniseries V. 

He’s worked steadily successful movie and tv from 1971’s Dirty Harry to his astir caller project, a 2022 quality successful The Ms. Pat Show. 

He has children of his own

Before helium famously joined the parent of 1 of the world’s biggest stars, Richard was joined to chap histrion Denise Gordy from 1978-1989. Together, the erstwhile mates welcomed 2 children, actress Bianca Jasmine Lawson successful 1979, and songwriter Ricky Lawson, calved successful 1992.

Richard is simply a Flight 405 Survivor

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On March 22, 1992, Richard boarded a formation from LaGuardia Airport successful Queens, New York that would aboriginal go infamous. The histrion survived the USAir Flight 405 clang with 47 passengers aboard. 27 of them would perish en way to Cleveland, Ohio, arsenic the level crashed into the h2o successful Flushing Bay, New York.

He’s a California native

Richard was calved connected March 7, 1947, successful Loma Linda, California. He’d aboriginal be Riverside College there, and of course, wed Tina Knowles connected a yacht successful Newport Beach.

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