Two of the four sons associated with Tina Turner’s life died in the years before her own death. Craig Raymond Turner, whose father was Raymond Hill rather than Ike Turner, died in July 2018 at the age of fifty-nine. His death was ruled an apparent suicide. Ronnie Turner, born in 1960 with Ike Turner as his father, died in December 2022 from complications of colon cancer. He was sixty-two.
These losses belong in any full account of Tina Turner’s later years, but they belong in it with care — as documented facts, not as material for narrative elaboration. She lost two sons in four years. She was in her late seventies when Craig died, in her eighties when Ronnie died, already navigating the health challenges that her later memoirs and interviews described. The grief was her own to navigate, in the private life she had worked to build in Switzerland.
What is true of her sons is verifiable: Craig was born in 1958, died in July 2018, and his death was an apparent suicide. Ronnie was born in 1960, died in December 2022. The causes of death are those that have been reported in verified accounts.
She died herself seven months after Ronnie — on May 24, 2023, at her home in Küsnacht, aged 83. She had faced multiple health challenges in the preceding years. The specific cause of death was not specified in the terms available at the time this article is written.
She had outlived two of her sons. She had outlived Ike Turner, who died in 2007. She had outlived the period of her life that the public most wanted to revisit. She died in Switzerland, in the home she had chosen, in the country she had become a citizen of, having spent the preceding decade as quietly as a person of her cultural stature could manage to spend it.