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===Children=== Turner had two biological sons: one with Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill, named Raymond Craig, born on August 20, 1958, and the other with Ike Turner, Ronald "Ronnie" Renelle Turner, born on October 27, 1960.<ref name="Tina Turner: Singer"/>{{sfn|Gulla|2008|p=175}} She also adopted two of Ike Turner's children, raising them as her own.<ref name="Tina Turner: Singer">{{Cite web |date=May 8, 2000 |title=Tina Turner: Singer |url= https://people.com/archive/tina-turner-singer-vol-53-no-18/ |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181202215439/https://people.com/archive/tina-turner-singer-vol-53-no-18/ |archive-date=December 2, 2018 |access-date=March 8, 2019 |website=People}}</ref> Turner was 18 years of age when she gave birth to her eldest son.{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=55|ps=: "Ann graduated from high school, and on August 20, 1958, she gave birth to her son, Raymond Craig."|1986}} Ike Turner adopted Raymond Craig Hill, and changed his name to Craig Raymond Turner.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/27/tina-turner-scatters-sons-ashes-pacific-after-apparent-suicide/848942002/ |title=Tina Turner scatters son Craig's ashes in the Pacific: 'He will always be my baby' |last=Deerwester |first=Jayme |date=July 27, 2018 |website=USA Today |access-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-date=December 5, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181205200411/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/27/tina-turner-scatters-sons-ashes-pacific-after-apparent-suicide/848942002/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Craig was found dead in an apparent suicide in July 2018.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url= https://variety.com/2018/music/news/tina-turner-son-dead-suicide-1202865126/ |last=Clopton |first=Ellis C. |title=Tina Turner's Eldest Son Dies in Apparent Suicide |date=July 3, 2018 |access-date=July 4, 2018 |archive-date=July 4, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180704124150/https://variety.com/2018/music/news/tina-turner-son-dead-suicide-1202865126/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Turner's younger son, Ronnie, played bass guitar in a band called Manufactured Funk with songwriter and musician [[Patrick Moten]]. Ronnie also played for both of his parents' bands.{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=69|1986}}{{sfn|McKeen|2000|p=257}}{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=211|1986}}<ref name="Eaton-2016">{{Cite web |url= https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wfunk/2017/10/16/an-interview-with-ike-turner-jr-and-randi-love-on-the-bobby-eaton-show |title=An Interview with Ike Turner Jr and Randi Love on The Bobby Eaton Show |website=BlogTalkRadio |date=October 17, 2016 |access-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210308191037/https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wfunk/2017/10/16/an-interview-with-ike-turner-jr-and-randi-love-on-the-bobby-eaton-show |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Sfn|Cawthorne|Turner|1999|p=232}} Through him, Turner had two grandchildren.<ref name="Tina Turner: Singer"/> He was married to French singer [[Afida Turner]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photos – Lesly Mess alias Afida Turner au côté de son mari Ronnie Turner et de sa belle-mère Tina Turner |url= https://www.purepeople.com/media/lesly-mess-alias-afida-turner-au-cote_m383522 |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=Pure People |language=fr |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221223072628/https://www.purepeople.com/media/lesly-mess-alias-afida-turner-au-cote_m383522 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ronnie died from complications of [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] in December 2022.<ref name="RonnieCancer">{{cite web |url= https://www.today.com/health/tina-turner-son-ronnie-cause-death-colon-cancer-rcna61458 |title=Tina Turner's Son Ronnie's Cause of Death Is Revealed |work=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]] |date=December 13, 2022 |access-date=December 21, 2022 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221220234519/https://www.today.com/health/tina-turner-son-ronnie-cause-death-colon-cancer-rcna61458 |url-status=live}}</ref> During Turner's divorce trial, Ike sent their four sons to live with Tina and gave her money for one month's rent.{{sfn|Turner|Loder|p=198|1986}}{{sfn|Kiersh|1985|pp=40–41}} Ike Turner Jr. worked as a sound engineer at [[Bolic Sound]] and briefly for Turner after her divorce,{{sfn|Turner|Loder|1986|p=170}} later winning a Grammy Award for producing his father's album ''[[Risin' with the Blues]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ike Turner, Jr. |website=Recording Academy Grammy Awards |date=November 23, 2020 |url= https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/ike-turner-jr}}</ref> He toured with former Ikette Randi Love as Sweet Randi Love and the Love Thang Band.<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://theoklahomaeagle.net/2017/10/12/tulsa-native-randi-love-giving-to-give-back/ |title=Tulsa Native Randi Love Giving To Give Back |last=Jones |first=Fred L. |date=October 12, 2017 |work=The Oklahoma Eagle |access-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191204072839/http://theoklahomaeagle.net/2017/10/12/tulsa-native-randi-love-giving-to-give-back/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Ike Turner Jr. stated that he and his brothers had a distant relationship with their mother (Tina).<ref name="Eaton-2016"/> Turner wrote in her autobiography ''I, Tina'' that after her divorce she became "a little bit estranged" from all her sons except Craig.{{sfn|Turner|Loder|1986|p=172}} In 1989, Turner told ''[[TV Week]]'' that "she's still there for the boys",<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 10, 1989 |title=What's love got to do with it? Plenty! |url= http://www.tina-turner.nl/images/magazines/1989/16.jpg |journal=TV Week |pages=15 |access-date=January 18, 2013 |archive-date=July 3, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110703175847/http://tina-turner.nl/images/magazines/1989/16.jpg |url-status=live}}</ref> but there were reports of Turner's estrangement from her sons in the years before her death.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Caroline Graham |first1=Caroline |last2=Daniel |first2=Hugo |date=April 28, 2018 |title=Tina Turner's son opens up about his mother |url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tina-turned-her-back-on-our-family-claims-her-adopted-son/XU2SBCGKFUHHJJAFVFO32IUYDE/ |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221223062048/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tina-turned-her-back-on-our-family-claims-her-adopted-son/XU2SBCGKFUHHJJAFVFO32IUYDE/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberto |first=Melissa |date=April 6, 2021 |title=Tina Turner documentary fails to examine her absence as a mother, source says: 'She doesn't speak to anybody' |url= https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tina-turner-hbo-documentary-fails-absence-mother-source |access-date=December 23, 2022 |publisher=Fox News |language=en-US |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210420104454/https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tina-turner-hbo-documentary-fails-absence-mother-source |url-status=live}}</ref>
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