A week after Brandon Blackstock’s death at age 48, a surprising fact about the talent manager’s private life has come to light.
An online obituary for Blackstock makes no mention of singer Kelly Clarkson, with whom he shared a 11-year-old daughter, River Rose, and a 9-year-old son, Remington Alexander. However, it lists Brittney Marie Jones as his “beautiful and loving partner in life and business.”
According to LinkedIn, Jones worked as Clarkson’s production assistant from 2016 to 2018. In late 2018, she began working in an executive management assistant role under Blackstock, where her duties included managing a “day to day artist schedule” for Clarkson.
Since 2020, Jones has served as an executive assistant for V Bar V Cattle Co., a Montana ranch owned by Blackstock. Her professional transition notably overlaps with Clarkson’s filing for divorce from Blackstock in June of that year, after about seven years of marriage.
Among those to mourn Blackstock’s passing was Jones’ father, Larry Jones, who said he “considered him my son” in a social media post, according to People.
