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Actor-director Ricky Rivero. From River's Instagram account
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 "Ninja Kids” and was also a former star of “That's Entertainment.”
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He was one of the directors of ABS-CBN teleseryes "Mula sa Puso" 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.
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