This section contains the bio of famous Hollywood Actress Nicole Richie.

Nicole Richie Biogaphy :

Nicole Richie (born Nicole Camille Escovedo) was born in Berkeley, California. Her biological father is widely rumored to be Afro-Latino musician Pete Escovedo, brother of 1980s pop percussionist Sheila E., but this was directly denied by Richie in the November 2005 issue of Jane magazine. According to an April 2006 Tatler magazine interview with Richie, her biological father was a drummer who worked with Lionel Richie; her biological mother was a backstage assistant for Lionel. When Richie was 3, Lionel and his wife Brenda Harvey-Richie informally adopted her and raised her as their daughter. When she was 9, they went through the legal formalities of the adoption; she still speaks with her biological mother who is also of Afro-Hispanic descent and currently resides in the Dominican Republic. Richie said of her heritage that she was a "mix of everything", but when asked she just says she is African-American. Her godfathers are Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.

A year later, Lionel and Brenda split, and in their guilt over the separation, "Their way of making me happy was to say yes to everything I wanted but I don't think a little girl should have that much freedom," said Richie in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine. She used marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, was arrested three times, and was involved in five car accidents. Not until she went into drug rehabilitation in 2003 did Richie and her parents have an open conversation about her addiction. "I'm now, at 24, just learning to deal with my problems instead of concealing them with drugs," she said in the interview.

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