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Casey Johnson's Death: Ahmad Rashad To Raise Stepdaughter's Child

by Yuliya Talmazan | January 8, 2010 at 11:24 am

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Ahmad Rashad, the step-father of late Casey Johnson, is to raise his step-daughter's child Ava with wife and Casey Johnson's mother Sale Johnson. Rashad is an American sportscaster and a former professional football player. Since 2007, he has been married to Sale Johnson, the ex-wife of Johnson & Johnson billionaire Woody Johnson. It is not clear if Rashad and Johnson will formally adopt Ava or simply retain custody over her.

Casey Johnson was not married, but she adopted her three-year-old daughter Ava from Kazakhstan. Johnson was engaged to reality TV personality Tila Tequila. Johnson died on January 4 of unknown causes. Her body was found lifeless by a maid in her Los Angeles home. No foul play is suspected. Autopsy results are expected within weeks.

Johnson's fiance Tila Tequila claimed she would take custody of Ava, but the family wants the girl to stay with Casey Johnson's mother and sisters. It was reported that Ava was living with Sale Johnson for several months prior to Casey Johnson's death.

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energizerbunnyonthego (not verified)

at 17:14 on January 9th, 2010

oh no. casey's family CANNOT raise this girl. Child Protective Services if you monitor this site, please take this girl and put her up for adoption. There are too many families that want kids and cannot have them. Look what happened to Casey and I'm not talking recently. I'm talking from the time she was born. This families money and power is what lead her the wrong way because her family was too busy having their kids raised by nannies and letting casey have a personal shopper by the time she was what 10 and charge to daddy's credit card. what kind of example are casey's parents going to set for Ava. NONE. Ava needs a normal life and there is NOTHING normal about Casey's family.

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at 20:17 on January 13th, 2010

So energizeronthego ... you really think handing the little girl over to another family will help. How do you know it's the family's fault, do u know the family or are you just speculating on what you have read... so they are rich who cares. If you are speculating I would say that it is clear Casey had issues and you can't blame her upbringing for that. Why her sisters are fine aren't they? Perhaps Casey was a little more troubled, and needed to see someone which she was not open to do. Very sad but appears to be the truth.