Rohan Anthony Marley (born 19 May 1972) is a Jamaican businessman and former football player. He is the son of reggae artist Bob Marley, and the father of model Selah Marley, reggae artist YG Marley, and former American football player Nico Marley.
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Early life and education
Rohan was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 19 May 1972. He was born out of wedlock from an affair that his father had with sixteen-year-old Janet Hunt during his marriage to singer Rita Marley. Rohan Marley went to live with his mother Janet on and off from the age of four until moving to live with his paternal grandmother Cedella Booker after his father died of cancer in Miami in 1981.
He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest, Florida, where he graduated in 1991. He then attended the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he played linebacker for the University of Miami football team. In the 1993 season, Marley led the Hurricanes' defense with 95 tackles.
Career
The Rastapreneur
Rohan Marley has spent two decades translating legacy into action, building businesses across cannabis, coffee, hospitality, and lifestyle that carry his father Bob Marley's message of unity, empowerment, and hope into new industries. That range is exactly what makes him a distinctive voice: few people move as fluidly between boardrooms, dispensary launches, coffee farms, and cultural stages as Rohan does.
Guided by the Rastafari principle that "it's not who you are but how you are," Rohan built his career on self-actualization, purpose, and alignment — ideas he applies as readily to entrepreneurship as to identity, wellness, and community. He's built and scaled Marley Coffee from a 52-acre Blue Mountains estate into an international brand, developed RoMarley Beachhouse as a wellness-driven hospitality concept, and most recently launched Lion Order — his cannabis lifestyle brand, as a founding partner within ACE Venture's New York cannabis platform in April 2026, alongside cultural anchors like Kareem "Biggs" Burke and Gee Roberson.
That breadth is the point: Rohan speaks with equal authority on legacy and reinvention, on the discipline of entrepreneurship and the spirituality of Rastafari, on cannabis as both business and consciousness, and on what it means to build something new while carrying a name as weighted as Marley. He's as comfortable discussing supply chains and equity partnerships as he is the meaning of livity, which makes him suited not to a single lane of conversation, but to a wide range of emergent topics where business, culture, wellness, and legacy intersect.
In popular culture
He made an appearance in the 2010 documentary film Motherland.
Personal life
On 18 March 1993, as a sophomore at the University of Miami, Marley married his girlfriend Geraldine Khawly. They had a daughter and a son, Nico Marley, who was a linebacker at Tulane and was signed by the Washington Redskins in 2017.
Marley met musician Lauryn Hill in 1996, and they had five children including model Selah Marley and singer songwriter Joshua Omaru, known professionally as YG Marley. Marley and Hill lived apart for most of their relationship, which ended in 2009. Marley provided temporary custody for their five children while Hill served a three-month prison sentence for tax evasion in 2013. While Hill sometimes referred to Marley as her husband, they never legally married.
In 2003, Rolling Stone suggested that Marley had never divorced Khawly. However, in 2011, Marley produced a Haitian divorce decree which demonstrated that he had divorced Khawly in 1996.
In early 2013, Marley was briefly engaged to Isabeli Fontana, but the engagement ended in early 2013.
On 23 March 2019, Marley married Brazilian model Barbara Fialho in Montes Claros, Brazil, five months before the birth of their daughter. Marley divorced Fialho the following year.