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Nicole Richie: Lionel Richie
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Nicole Richie has shed all her extra weight - just two weeks after giving birth. Dressed in a figure-hugging black dress, the star looked tired and pale as she joined new grandfather Lionel Richie at a birthday party on Friday for his manager in L.A. Under regular scrutiny for her painfully thin figure, the 26-year-old star had temporarily regained her curves as she made a vow to prioritise her …
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Nicole Richie was born on September 21, 1981. She is the adopted daughter of famed musician Lionel Richie. It is rumored that her biological father is musician Peter Michael Escovedo but Richie has continuously denied those reports. Richie was a bright kid with a rough childhood.
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Lionel Richie first met Nicole as a child playing tambourine onstage at a Prince concert. Richie became her guardian and later adopted her.[3] At age two, Nicole went to live with Lionel Richie and his wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, who began to raise her as their daughter. When she was three years old, Nicole began attending weekly sessions with a psychotherapist and remained in therapy throughout her childhood. She was legally adopted by the Richies when she was nine. Shortly after the adoption was formalized, Lionel's affair with another woman became public knowledge.[4]
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Lionel Richie is taken by 3-year-old Nicole, a fixture at his concerts, and gets the approval of her birth parents to let her move in with him and his wife, Brenda. She is officially adopted six years later. "My parents were friends with Lionel," Nicole tells PEOPLE in 2003. "They trusted that they would be better able to provide for me." In 1986, she attends kindergarten at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where she meets fellow classmate Paris Hilton.
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Hilton's co-starred with Nicole Richie, the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, in the Fox reality series The Simple Life, which premiered on December 2, 2003. The Simple Life ran for three seasons on Fox. The show was cancelled by Fox after a dispute between Hilton and Richie, but it was subsequently aired by E! Entertainment Television for the fourth and fifth seasons,[13] with talks of a sixth season to follow.[14] Hilton has ... guest-starred in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars. Furthermore, she appeared in several music videos, including "It Girl" by John Oates and "Just Lose It" by Eminem. Hilton has made cameo appearances in several films, notably Zoolander (2001), Wonderland (2003), and The Cat In The Hat (2003).
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Lionel Richie says 25-year-old Nicole has “made some mistakes in her life,” but that he raised her to take responsibility for her behavior. “Nicole has not blamed others for her problems and is growing up very quickly, albeit in the heat of the media spotlight,” daddy Richie told Us magazine. Lionel then went on to say:
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