Brandon Blackstock, the late ex-husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, was a father of four. The talent manager died on August 7 after a private cancer diagnosis. Blackstock was 48 years old. “It is with great sadness that we share the news that Brandon Blackstock has passed away,

Brandon Blackstock was the father of four. He shared Savannah and her brother Seth with his first wife, Melissa Ashworth, whom he married in 2001. The couple divorced in 2012. He later married Kelly Clarkson, with whom he had two more children — daughter River, born in 2014, and son Remington, born in 2016.