Did Bob Marley’s wife Rita Marley die?

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Coming from ‘King Richard’ director Reinaldo Marcus Green, the upcoming Bob Marley biopic One Love stars Lashana Lynch as Bob’s wife, Rita Marley.

Notably, the film also has some blessings from the Marley estate. The icon’s son, Ziggy Marley, joins the project as a producer, revealing the first look at the film at this year’s CinemaCon.

Covering everything from Marley’s celebrity status to anti-war activism and subsequent assassination attempt, the film has it all.

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— Bob Marley (@bobmarley) July 6, 2023

Was Rita Marley really murdered?

Two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, December 3, 1976, at 8:30 p.m. At m., seven armed men broke into Bob Marley’s home at 56 Hope Road. Marley was taking a break from rehearsing with his band. Rita, Marley’s wife, was shot in the head as she was driving into the driveway. Marley was struck in the arm and chest by the gunman. Don Taylor, his manager, was shot in the torso and legs. Louis Griffiths, a member of the band, also received a wound to the torso. None of the victims died.

Bob Marley informed concert organizer Trevor Philips that Michael Manley’s political rival Edward Seaga is believed to have ordered his security, Lester “Jim Brown” Coke, to be there during the shooting. As a neighbor and close friend of Marley’s, Nancy Burke remembers hearing Wailer’s percussionist Alvin Patterson exclaim, “It’s Seaga, guys! “Dem are coming to kill Bob!” According to multiple sources, the shooters returned to Tivoli Gardens, a neighborhood that supports the JLP and is also home to the infamous Shower Posse.

According to Timothy White’s Bob Marley biography, the CIA hired JLP gunman Carl Byah “Mitchell” to plan the shooting of Marley, and Lester Coke, aka Jim Brown, led the charge on Hope Road. White also claimed that information he received from JLP and PNP officials and US law enforcement officials led him to believe that Carl Byah “Mitchell” was responsible for the shooting of Marley. Marley’s manager, Don Taylor, claimed that he and Marley were present when the shooters who shot Marley were tried and executed in court. Before one of the gunmen was killed, Taylor claims that he said the job was done for the CIA in exchange for cocaine and firearms.

Despite the shooting, Marley promised that he would perform a song at the Smile Jamaica Concert on December 5 at National Heroes Park, Kingston. At the event, Bob Marley & The Wailers played for 90 minutes.