Sharon Osborne

[Lindylour]

Who is Sharon Osbornes father?

[Numbers]

Don Arden, who managed the Electric Light Orchestra and owned Jet Records.

From a Guardian interview in 2001:

Her father was Don Arden, the legendarily heavy-handed and confrontational svengali manager of Gene Vincent, the Small Faces and, later, Black Sabbath. Arden was frequently accused of violent, bullying tactics by his artists. His daughter followed him into the family business: "If he'd been a butcher, I'd be slicing lamb chops now." 

In 1979, Black Sabbath sacked Ozzy. Sharon Arden began to date him, and took over his management from her father. Don Arden was livid. The next time she visited him, his vicious pet dogs savaged her. She was pregnant, and lost the child. "It was horrific," she winces. In the mid-1980s, Don Arden faced trial for false imprisonment and blackmail of business associates, but was acquitted. His son David was found guilty of the same charge and jailed. Osbourne has had no contact with her father for 20 years, but the wounds still fester. "The best lesson I ever had was watching him **** his business up," she says. "He taught me everything not to do. My father's never even seen any of my three kids and, as far as I'm concerned, he never will."

[egizzy]

However, since then according to Sharron when interviewed last night on Parkinson, she has now made up with him on Ozzys insistance when hearing he was unwell and she is now back in touch and I belive said caring for him!