Vanessa Del Rio, Debbie Allen, and Phylicia Rashad are three famous women who have made their mark in the entertainment industry. Vanessa Del Rio is a former “film” star who was known as the first Latina star of the “film” industry in the 1970s and 1980s. Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad are sisters who have achieved success as actresses, dancers, directors, and producers. Debbie Allen is best known for her role as Lydia Grant in the TV series Fame and as the executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy. Phylicia Rashad is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show and as the first black actress to win a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. But are these three women related by blood? There is a rumor that Vanessa Del Rio is the half sister of Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, meaning that they share the same father. The rumor stems from the fact that Vanessa Del Rio’s real name is Anna Maria Sanchez, and that she was born in

Harlem, New York, to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother. Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad’s father was Andrew Arthur Allen Sr., a dentist who was also born in Harlem, New York, to a Cuban father and an African American mother. The rumor suggests that Andrew Arthur Allen Sr. had an affair with Vanessa Del Rio’s mother and fathered her before he married Vivian Ayers, the mother of Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad. However, there is no evidence to support this rumor, and it has been denied by both Vanessa Del Rio and Debbie Allen. In an interview with The Guardian in 2016, Vanessa Del Rio said that she had never met Debbie Allen or Phylicia Rashad, and that she did not know where the rumor came from. She said: “I don’t know why people think I’m related to them. Maybe because we’re all brown-skinned women with curly hair.” She also said that she was proud of her Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage, and that she did not have any African American ancestry.