DNA Test Proves Ronnie James Dio & Rhea Perlman are Siblings

A DNA test that was taken on a whim proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Heavy Metal God Ronnie James Dio and actress Rhea Perlman are brother and sister. The resemblance between the siblings is quite uncanny and leaves little doubt to the accuracy of the test.

Rhea Perlman is an actress that is equally as famous for playing Carla on Cheers and being married to Danny Devito. Ronnie James Dio is often referred to as a Heavy Metal God and one of the best metal singers of all time. It is also generally accepted that Dio invented the Heavy Metal finger Devil Horns. Although Gene Simmons and Frank Lorenzo from All in the Family have laid claim to the horns as well.

Dio Sibling Rhea Perlman

Perlman was given the test by her children. “What harm could it do” thought Perlman. “So I spit in the tube and mailed it off. When the results came back I was shocked to see that I had a sibling named Ronnie James Padavona from New York. My sister Heide alerted me to the fact that was the real name of the Heavy Metal singer Ronnie James Dio. I looked him up on youtube and was quite impressed. I was very sad when I learned he passed, I would have loved to meet him.”

DNA Test Proves Ronnie James Dio & Rhea Perlman are Siblings

Perlman then launched a full investigation. It appears that Dio was born in 1942 during WWII the big one. Rhea and Dio shared the same biological parents, Chaim and Shoshana Perlman. Dio’s birth name was Claude Perlman. The family was going through hard times and traded the boy for some chocolate bars to a family in Upstate NY, the Padavona’s. They also traded their other sons Ron and Itzhak to different families. Once the war was over the Perlman’s had 2 girls which they kept, Rhea and Heide.

Meet The Dunbars

There are some amazing coincidences in the story. The Perlman’s lived in the Dunbar apartments in New York City. Ronnie James Dio was married to the ex wife of Aynsley Dunbar. Ron Perlman left his first wife to marry Allison Dunbar. Itzhak has a boil on his buttocks that he had lanced in the town of Dunbar, Scotland. Danny Devito has Dunbar Syndrome, a rare disease that stunts growth and causes explosive diarrhea. And Finally, Rhea Perlman once starred in a movie titled, The Trouble with Dunbar. The title character Dunbar was an alcoholic chimpanzee. What do these coincidences mean? Well, we don’t know but they sure are chilling.