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Actor-director Ricky Rivero passes away

Anna Cerezo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Actor-director Ricky Rivero. From River" s="" Instagram="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/entertainment/07/16/07162023-actor-director-ricky-rivero-passes-away.jpg"/><figcaption>Actor-director Ricky Rivero. From River&#x27;s Instagram account</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - Actor-director Ricky Rivero has died early Sunday morning, his sister confirmed. He was 51 years old.“He passed away at 2:25 this morning,” Beverly Salvador-Quintela wrote in a message.No cause of death has been disclosed as of this writing but Rivero was reported to have suffered from a stroke in May.Rivero started as a teen actor in the 1980s. He was part of the movie &quot;Ninja Kids” and was also a former star of “That&#x27;s Entertainment.”He was one of the directors of ABS-CBN teleseryes &quot;Mula sa Puso&quot; in 2012, “Eva Fonda” and “Forevermore.”In 2011, Rivero made headlines after he was involved in a stabbing incident in his own home. He was stabbed 17 times but survived by driving himself to a hospital.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/26/11/ricky-rivero-speaks-about-ordeal">Ricky Rivero speaks about ordeal</a></li></ul>

Actor-director Ricky Rivero has died early Sunday morning, his sister confirmed. He was 51 years old.

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Actor-director Ricky Rivero passes away

Anna Cerezo,

ABS-CBN News

Published July 16, 2023 03:03 PM PHT

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Updated July 16, 2023 09:24 PM PHT

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