Sylvester Stallone, Who Turns 80 in July, Wrote His 24-Year-Old Daughter Scarlet a Birthday Note: “You And Your Sisters Make Me So Proud Every Day.”
· Thought Catalog
Updated 4 minutes ago, May 28, 2026
Scarlet Rose Stallone turned 24 on May 25. She was born in Los Angeles on May 25, 2002, the baby of the family and a proud Gemini.
Her dad marked the day with an Instagram post that opened, “A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR AMAZING SCARLET! …. We love you so much!” It paired a throwback of him cradling her as a toddler with a fresh shot of the two of them on the set of Tulsa King, which wrapped Season 4 production earlier this year. He rounded it out with a photo of Scarlet and her mom, Jennifer Flavin.
Scarlet is the youngest of Stallone’s five kids. He had two sons with first wife Sasha Czack: Sage Moonblood Stallone, who acted with him in Rocky V and Daylight before dying of heart disease in 2012 at 36, and Seargeoh, born in 1979 and diagnosed with autism at 3, who has lived privately out of the spotlight. With Jennifer he has three daughters, Sophia (born 1996), Sistine (born 1998), and Scarlet. All five names start with S.
It’s a full-circle moment. Sylvester and Jennifer married on May 17, 1997 in a small ceremony at The Dorchester Hotel in London, and they just celebrated their 29th anniversary back in London this month.
Scarlet has been building her acting career right alongside him, playing Spencer on Tulsa King. The role started as a college-student barista at Triangle Coffee Roasters, evolved into horse caretaker at Fennario Ranch, and has now turned her into a “mini businesswoman” and bartender at the Bred-2-Buck helping Dwight’s crew. She researched the part by visiting real Tulsa coffee shops, and she’s said filming the show “completely changed” her relationship with her dad for the better. Sly has admitted on set, “I’m starting to learn from her. She’s so good.”
Stallone is 79 and turns 80 on July 6. On The Family Stallone he traced the physical toll back to one moment: “I did stupid stuff. I was directing Expendables and, like an idiot, I’m doing take 10… and I remember one slam, and I could actually feel one bang. After that film, it was never physically the same.” Years and several back surgeries later, when a reporter on the Kennedy Center Honors red carpet brought up the number, his answer was three words: “It adds up.”
That visible reality, plus the cane he was using in the anniversary photos, has fueled sensational online rumors and clickbait headlines claiming everything from new cancers to him being “on his last legs.” Most of it recycles old info or exaggerates the very real wear-and-tear from a lifetime of doing his own stunts, and nothing new has been officially confirmed by Stallone or his team.