- Date Of Birth: 1956
- Date Of Death: 2019
- State: New York
Steven Charles Mollette was born to the late Thelma Rillie-Mollette and late Richard Mollette, on July 29, 1956 in the Bronx, N.Y. He was one of five siblings that were raised at 934 Longwood Avenue, in the South Bronx. Mollette attended P.S. 39, the Henry Bruckner Junior High School, followed by the New York High School of Printing (class of 1975).
Over the next decade Mollette started a family of his own with his girlfriend, Chiquita McCrae, while working as a graphics printer in NYC. The couple parented four daughters between 1980 and 1984: Dr. Arabia Mollette, Nilerisha Mollette-Forrest, Tynirra Mollette and the late Unishun Mollette. As the years passed, Mollette landed in another courtship in 1987 with Cynthia Rizer. This union led to the birth of his son, Prince Mollette, in 1989.
Several years later, on January 7, 1993, Mollette began his long road to recovery at the Phoenix House Rehabilitation Program in Shrub Oak, NY. It was at Phoenix House that Mollette began to flourish, working as a printing instructor in the rehab’s on-site high school and saving money to move out on his own. When he completed the Phoenix House rehabilitation program, he redirected his own energies by becoming a print-shop teacher at Riker’s Island’s educational facility for incarcerated youth, and decided against moving back to the Bronx. He found a small studio apartment in a nearby small town in Peekskill, NY. Eventually his daughters and son all moved to Peekskill to start a new chapter with him.
