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Natalie Cole’s Only Child, Robert Yancy, Dies At 39

Robert Yancy, the only child of the R&B star late Natalie Cole and grandson of legendary crooner Nat King Cole, has died. He was 39.

Yancy was found dead Monday night at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles after authorities were contacted to make a welfare check.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Tuesday that his death was reported as due to natural causes but the official cause must await an autopsy.

The son of legendary singer Natalie Cole was found dead Monday night, and he was only 39 … TMZ has learned. (TMZ)

His death comes just 18 months after his mother died at age 65 on Dec. 31, 2015, of pulmonary arterial hypertension, which led to heart failure.

Yancy’s father, Marvin, the first of Cole’s three husbands, died of a heart attack at age 34 in 1985, when Yancy was 7.

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His grandfather, Nat King Cole, the enormously popular singer of the late 1950s and early 1960s, died of cancer in 1965, at age 45.

The late Natalie Cole and her son, the late Robert Yancy, grandson of Nat King Cole, at her 60th birthday party in February 2010 in Beverly Hills. (Photo: Duffy-Marie Arnoult, Getty Images) – USA Today

Yancy’s aunt, Timolin Cole Augustus, told The Associated Press, his death “appears to be a sudden heart attack.”

Yancy was a drummer who played in his mother’s touring band and performed at her funeral in January 2016.

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“We are just numb,” Cole Augustus said. “The only consolation is that he’s with the person he loved the most.”

Cole Augustus said by phone from her Florida home that Yancy was “completely torn apart” upon his mother’s death, but had since rebounded and was performing again.

“He was in a happy place. He was feeling good,” she said. “We were looking forward to celebrating his 40th birthday.”

EUR (Electronic Urban Report)

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