Gypsy Rose Blanchard's baby's father Ken Urker dies aged 33

Tragedy has struck for Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose fiancé Ken Urker has died at just 33 years old.

Louisiana's Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office told LADbible in a statement that officers were called to a property in the state after Urker was found unresponsive, on what would have been his birthday.

Officers reportedly received the call at approximately 6.15pm local time on October 1, and upon reaching the property, Urker had already passed.

The pair welcomed a daughter, Aurora Raina, who's just celebrated her first birthday after being born in December 2024.

Her arrival came not long after Gypsy Rose, who served time for her role in the killing of her own mother, publicly put to bed months of speculation over who Aurora's biological father really was, confirming it was Urker and not her then-estranged husband, Ryan Anderson.

"There's been a lot of chatter around the paternity of our baby and while we've known for sure from the beginning, I feel that it's finally time to put all these theories to rest," she wrote in a now-deleted post. "Ken is the father."

She continued: "Ken is going to be an incredible dad and we are so excited to welcome our baby girl into the world."

Gypsy Rose and Urker's romance actually dates back much further, to 2017, when he began writing to her as a pen pal while she was serving her sentence over the 2015 murder of mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.

By October 2018, the two had gotten engaged, though things didn't last, with the pair parting ways less than a year later in August 2019. Gypsy Rose went on to tie the knot with Anderson in a 2022 prison wedding, a marriage that ultimately unravelled in March 2024, just a few months after she'd regained her freedom. By the close of that year, the divorce had been formally signed off.

It didn't take long for Gypsy Rose and Urker to find their way back to one another — within weeks of news breaking of her split from Anderson, the former couple marked their reunion with matching husky ink.

She later opened up about the physical side of their reconciliation during an April 2025 episode of Life After Lock Up, describing things between her and Urker as particularly "adventurous" in the bedroom.

"Our first weekend that we reconnected, it was like a floodgate," she revealed on the Lifetime show, before adding: "And naturally, now there are times that I think is harder because of schedules and business and work and, like, I want that back for us."