Nicole Richie became famous as a Hollywood party girl in the early 2000s, then became a star of the reality show "The Easy Life" . Years later, fans got to know his younger sister, model Sofia Richie . Read on to find out how these pairs match up .
Who are Sofia Richie and Nicole Richie related?
Sofia is the daughter of music superstar Lionel Richie and his second wife Diane Alexander . The couple got married in 2010. Lionel and Diane have one more child – Sofia's older brother Miles, who was born in 1994.
Nicole was officially adopted by Lionel and his first wife, Brenda Harvey , when she was 9 years old, although the author of "All Night Long" had known her since childhood. His biological father is musician Peter Escovedo , and his mother is Karen Moss, who worked as an assistant to Peter's sister, singer and drummer Sheila E.
How did Nicole raise Lionel Richie?
Lionel first saw Nicole when she was 2 years old in 1983 when she was playing the tambourine at a Prince concert. Lionel told The Huffington Post : “It's a wonderful piece of work. I found it, "My goodness, what a pretty little button." We played. I didn't think so." He saw Nicole again a few weeks later and was called Nicole Camila Escavedo, and "we were a little worried that the baby wouldn't be able to go on tour. A 2-year-old child should be inactive – it is not allowed to go outside.
Nicole's parents start to experience more and more trouble, and Lionel and Brenda decide it's time to step in and help the little girl they've fallen in love with. They became her legal guardians, and in 1986 Lionel wrote the song "Ballerina Girl" for Nicole.
“Nicole was truly a real find. "She was a little girl looking for a chance," Lionel told People magazine in February 2022. She gets used to people coming and going. She looked at me and I thought, "I'm not going anywhere."
In a 2015 interview, he told Piers Morgan: "So it took me a year to fall in love and it was a bit low and of course I was a father at the time." "So I said, 'Okay, here's what we're going to do: You're going to adopt everybody. You're going to make everyone in your family really want to come back, and I said, 'Let's keep it going.'
Lionel and Brenda Before their divorce in 1993, they legally adopted Nicole, who took the surname "Richie". She would later become Lionel's first child before adopting Miles and Sophia.
How close are Sofia and Nicole Richie?
Nicole was an adult when her younger sister was born, although there is a 17-year difference between them, the sisters are close, but lead somewhat different lives. Nicole shared Sofia's engagement to Elliott Grange in April 2022, when the music executive proposed in Hawaii, and in October 2022, he was one of the chosen guests at bikini model Frances' lavish bachelorette party in Paris, wearing a NSFW head for a selfie. . April 2023 Nicole is present when Sophia marries Eliot in the south of France.