Michael Ciminella is the first husband of singer Naomi Judd and the father of her daughter Ashley. On April 29, 2022, Judd died at the age of 76. The death was announced in a joint statement by Judd’s daughters Ashley and Wynonna on April 30, 2022. Judd died just before she was supposed to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Larry Strickland was Judd’s second spouse of more than 30 years at the time of her death. People Magazine cited unnamed sources who claimed that she killed herself. According to Nashville’s medical examiner’s office, “we are only giving out information to the family right now.” He attended UCLA (MBA), Transylvania University (Business degree), Fork Union Military Academy PG Football.
How Old Is Michael Ciminella?
Michael Ciminella age is 78 years old, as of Dec 2023. He was born in 1945 in Kentucky, United States. His birth name is, Michael Charles Ciminella.
Meet Michael Ciminella: Wynonna’s Dad
Naomi’s ex-boyfriend Charles Jordan is Wynonna‘s father, and Michael Ciminella is Ashley’s first spouse. Judd married Michael Ciminella when she was 17 and remained known as Diana Ellen Judd.
According to Fox News, Wynonna Judd, who was formerly Christina Clair Ciminella, “believed for years that her father was Michael Ciminella, the biological father of her sister Ashley Judd (Ashley Tyler Ciminella), whose birth name is Ashley Tyler Ciminella.” She eventually discovered, however, in the early 1990s that her actual father was Jordan.
Michael Ciminella And Naomi Judd Relationship
Naomi and Ciminella were married from 1964 to 1972, after which they divorced. Strickland was Naomi’s spouse in 1989. In Ashley Judd’s grandfather’s obituary, it was noted that he was a retired businessman who died in Kentucky.
According to a 1997 Associated Press story, he started Ashland Aluminum Co. in Ashland, Kentucky. He was survived by Michael C. Ciminella of Louisville, according to the article. The younger Michael Ciminella said in a 1995 interview that he was not Wynonna’s biological father, according to the report.
Naomi Judd Early Life
Naomi Judd was born to Pauline Ruth “Polly” and Charles Glen Judd on January 11, 1946, in Ashland, Kentucky. When asked if the Nashville, Tennessee, office of the county coroner was in charge of Judd’s death, the on-call investigator for that office responded that she could not comment. She explained that since the office was closed for business, it would have to be contacted next day.
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More About Naomi Judd
Naomi Judd’s first child, Christina Claire Ciminella (later Wynonna Judd) was born when Judd was 18. Her first daughter was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man who Judd quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Wynonna’s biological father, Charles Jordan.
After the birth of her daughter Ashley (in 1968), who later became a film and stage actress, and the end of her marriage to Ciminella, Judd brought up both daughters as a single parent, first attending nursing school at California’s College of Marin while living in nearby Lagunitas, California, and later beginning a successful singing career with daughter Wynonna.
When she reverted to her maiden name following her divorce, she also took the opportunity to change her name, Diana, which she did not think fit “her own spiritual, rural Kentucky conception of her true heritage”, and decided to homage the Biblical figure Naomi, finding resonance in her story of moving to another land and eventually being left without a husband raising two women.
