How many children does Lionel Richie have?

Lionel Richie has three children: Nicole Richie, Miles Brockman Richie, and Sofia Richie.

Richie married Brenda Harvey, whom he had known since college, on October 18, 1975. The two-year-old Nicole Camille Escovedo (now Nicole Richie), who was the niece of the drummer Sheila E and a member of Lionel's band, was formally adopted by the couple in 1983. Nicole was legally adopted by the Richies when she was nine years old and was raised as their daughter.

After discovering Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment in June 1988, Harvey was taken into custody and accused of battering Richie, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, and disturbing the peace. On August 9, 1993, Richie and Harvey divorced after almost 18 years of marriage. On December 21, 1995, Richie and Diane Alexander got married. Miles Brockman, their son, was born on May 27, 1994. Sofia Richie is their daughter and was born on August 24, 1998. In 2004, the couple divorced.

When Nicole Richie became pregnant with a girl in 2008 while dating Good Charlotte's Joel Madden, Richie became a grandfather. The couple welcomed Richie's second grandchild in 2009.

Other details about the Richie children are as follows:

Nicole Richie

"Nicole was actually a godsend." In February 2022, Lionel spoke to People. “She was a little girl who needed a shot. She was used to people coming and going. She looked at me, and I'd say, 'I'm not going anywhere.” Regarding his eldest child, Lionel famously wrote the 1986 hit song "Ballerina Girl." "I'm never gonna break your heart/Never will we drift apart/'Cause all I wanna do/Is share my whole life with you," he sings tenderly.

She rose to fame after starring with her childhood friend and fellow socialite Paris Hilton in the reality television series “The Simple Life” (2003–2007). Media coverage of Richie's personal life was present both during and after the five-year run of the series.

Richie continued her career in television after “The Simple Life” ended, participating as one of the three judges on the reality competition series “Fashion Star” (2012–2013). Later, she starred in the two-season, unscripted comedy series “Candidly Nicole” (2014–2015).

In the sitcom “Great News,” Richie played series regular Portia Scott-Griffith from 2017 to 2018. She started serving as a judge on the reality TV show “Making the Cut” in 2020. She is the creator of the lifestyle brand “House of Harlow” in the fashion industry.

Miles Brockman Richie

"I'm a mama's boy; I grew up with my mom," Miles told Entertainment Tonight Canada in 2018. His childhood was somewhat more private than that of his older sister. "I've always been so shy," he told Essence in 2020. He left UCLA, where he studied accounting, and began modeling, which is when he began to step more into the spotlight.

During New York Fashion Week in 2018, the Wilhelmina model made his runway debut at the Philipp Plein show. "You have to push yourself. My dad and my mom keep pushing me forward every single day, and every day I'm determined to be better. I want people to like me for me rather than like me for who my family is," Miles said.

Miles allegedly threatened to detonate a bomb at an airport in 2019. "On Saturday, January 19, a 24-year-old man accepted a caution for communicating false information causing a bomb hoax and battery following an incident at Heathrow Terminal 5 earlier that morning," The Metropolitan Police said in a statement to People that Miles was involved, but they did not name him.

Eyewitnesses allegedly stated that he became irate when he was denied boarding for a flight and claimed that he was carrying a bomb, according to TMZ. After that, he allegedly punched a security guard, and then police arrested him. Miles was issued a caution, which he reportedly accepted before being let go. A caution is a warning issued for minor crimes under UK law, not a criminal conviction.

Sophia Richie

American social media star, model, and fashion designer Sofia Richie has appeared in advertisements for many well-known companies, such as Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and Adidas. Michael Jackson served as Sofia Richie's godfather. She claimed that her childhood trips to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch were some of her favorite memories, and she grew close to his daughter, Paris.

Like her father, Richie developed a love of music as she was growing up. At age five, she began singing, and at age seven, she began piano lessons. When she was 14, she also occasionally made appearances at her father's performances and started taking vocal lessons from Tim Carter. Along with Joel Madden, the lead singer for Good Charlotte, she also collaborated in the studio.

Because of the pressure to live up to her father's reputation in the music industry, she ultimately decided against pursuing a career in music. In 2014, she participated in several episodes of her sister Nicole's reality show, “Candidly Nicole.”

Richie began dating music executive Elliot Grainge in April 2021. Elliot is the son of Lucian Grainge, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group. She declared her engagement to Grainge on her Instagram on April 20, 2022.