Pro-Trump Entertainer Diamond of Diamond and Silk Dies at 51
Diamond of the pro-Trump entertainers Diamond and Silk has died, the former president as well as the duo’s verified Twitter account announced Monday night. She was 51.
As reported by NBC News, both women, sisters whose names are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, respectively, were born in 1971, with Diamond making her debut on Thanksgiving Day, according to their 2020 book, “Uprising.”
Calling her death “really bad news for Republicans,” former President Donald Trump said on his Truth Social platform, “Our beautiful Diamond of Diamond and Silk has just passed away at her home in the state she loved so much, North Carolina.”
Her cause of death was unknown. Trump said, “Diamond’s death was totally unexpected.”
The pair’s verified Twitter account said, “The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity!”
It asked that any donations be made to a memorial fundraiser page at a crowdfunding website.
In late November, the Diamond and Silk Twitter account made a plea for prayers for Diamond. It was not clear exactly why. “Anyone who believes in the power of prayer please pray for Diamond,” it said.
The autobiographical “Uprising” says the sisters grew up “poor,” but not without class, taste and an anchor in a parcel of the fertile land of the Deep South, where their father’s dad and grandfather were landowning farmers.
