DePrince was born Mabinty Bangura in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in 1995. She grew up in an orphanage, where she was mistreated for ...

Elaine adopted Michaela and her sister, Mia DePrince, in 1999 when Michaela was 4 years old. Their biological parents died, ...

Renowned ballet dancer and advocate, Michaela DePrince died on Tuesday Sept. 10. She was 29. On Friday Sept. 13 her team took ...

Elaine DePrince died a day after her daughter Michaela passed away. "Grieving two family members who died within a 24 hour ...

Michaela died before Elaine and Elaine did not know of Michaela’s passing at the time,” the family said in a statement.

STORY: Sierra Leonean ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in Beyonce’s “Lemonade” visual album and in TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” died on Friday at the age of 29, her family said.

Elaine DePrince, the mother of ballerina Michaela DePrince, died within 24 hours of her daughter, having no idea she had died.

While Michaela's cause of death is yet to be released, her adoptive mother Elaine DePrince died 'during a routine procedure ...

The mother of ballerina Michaela DePrince has died the day after her daughter’s shock death. Michaela, 29, died on 10 ...

Elaine DePrince, an author and activist who adopted and raised nine children, died during “a routine procedure in preparation ...

DePrince died less than 24 hours before her mother, Elaine DePrince, died while undergoing a "routine procedure." The family ...