Who are Robbie Knievel's children? Daredevil stunt performer died with three daughters by his side
BUTTE, MONTANA: Daredevil Robbie Knievel who had followed in his father, Evel Knievel's, footsteps, becoming equally famed for his jaw-dropping motorbike stunts, died of pancreatic cancer on January 13, 2023, while in hospice, at the age of 60. “Daredevils don’t live easy lives,” his brother, Kelly Knievel, said at the time of Robbie’s death. “But it’s what they do.” He added, “He was a great daredevil. If you look at his jumps, that’s what he should be known for. It’s what he loved doing.”
While numerous media outlets reported that Robbie was the father of only two children named Krysten and Karmen, his brother Kelly claimed that there was a third daughter who addressed Robbie as "dad." Following Robbie's death, Kelly told, "It was expected. He was in Reno with his three daughters by his side," as per CBS News.
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Who are Robbie Knievel's children?
Krysten Knievel is a musician and recruitment consultant at Caravel Autism Health. She also performs as the main vocalist for her own rock group, Knievel's Daredevil Band. In addition, she sang the national anthem for the Chicago Bulls from December 2010 to December 2013. Krysten now lives in Chicago with her family, reported Opoyi.
His second daughter, Karmen Knievel, lives in Missoula, Montana. Details regarding her personal and professional life are not publicly known. Maria Collins, his third daughter, is from Waldport, Oregon. Her information, like Karmen's, is not publicly available.
MEAWW earlier reported, On October 17, 1938, Evel Knievel was born in Butte, Montana, and Robbie was one of Evel's four children with his first wife, Linda. They go by the names Kelly, (Robbie), Tracey, and Alicia. In a past interview, Kelly Knievel described his father Evel as "a one-in-a-billion character that did everything in his life in the same bold, huge way that he jumped buses, cars, or canyons."
Kelly Knievel talked about his brother in an article he wrote in the Guardian in 2010 saying, "My brother Robbie, who is two years younger than me, wanted to be famous [Robbie is a successful daredevil himself, completing many of the jumps his father failed] and my dad loved the whole showmanship thing, but I just wasn't predisposed to fame."
Robbie's most spectacular jump was over the Caesars Palace fountains in Las Vegas in 1989. Robbie's father (Evel) attempted but failed the same act. He goes ahead by saying that fear was absent in the Knievel household, whose mind never crossed that his father might die. "Whenever Dad crashed, he would come home and heal up and he'd go back out and be Evel Knievel again. He was hurt a lot, but we never sat down as a family and discussed the possibility that he would die in a crash. Dad was 100% confident in everything he did in life. He had no doubts or fears, so making preparations for his death simply wasn't necessary."
