Rita Wilson Reveals Her Father's Secret Bulgarian Family — The Discovery That Stayed With Her

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News (1 / 1) 22.04.2026 21:56 / Julia

Rita Wilson has revealed a long-hidden family detail discovered while tracing her roots on a genealogy series in 2012: her father had another family in Bulgaria before moving to the United States. Read on to discover the full story!

A hidden past uncovered

On the British show Who Do You Think You Are?, the 69-year-old learned that her late father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff, once had a wife named Alice and a son, Emil, born Dec. 26. Alice died in childbirth and Emil died of an infection about four months later. These events took place after World War II, and her father emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. Producers kept his tale because it was unusual.