Lionel Richie’s Family Guide: Meet His Kids Nicole, Miles and Sofia Richie, Their Mothers and More

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A family man! Lionel Richie might be known worldwide for his musical success, but to his three children, he’s just dad.The American Idol judge has been married twice — to Brenda Harvey and Diane Alexander — and is the father of three kids: Nicole Richie, Miles Brockman Richie and Sofia Richie.During his first marriage to Harvey, which lasted for nearly 18 years before its 1993 end, Lionel became a father when the then-couple adopted Nicole.

While the “Hello” crooner and Harvey became The Simple Life alum’s guardians in 1983 (when she was 2 years old), they didn’t legally adopt her until she was 9.“I think you changed my life a great deal in terms of softening my heart, because everything up to that point was about songwriting and the business and touring,” Lionel told his eldest daughter during a HuffPost interview published in December 2020. “All of a sudden I found something that I could actually fall in love with that was never going to leave me.

How about that?”The “Dancing on the Ceiling” singer’s heart expanded two more times when he and then-wife Alexander welcomed son Miles and daughter Sofia in 1994 and 1998, respectively.When Lionel was honored with a foot and handprint ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, all three of his kids were by his side.“They’ve done so much to try to kill me,” the musician joked to Entertainment Tonight in March 2018. “But to have them here? [All] I’ve heard all day was, ‘Dad, we’re so proud of you!

Dad, we’re so proud of you!’ You know, that means everything to a parent.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesLionel’s love, however, doesn’t stop with his kids.