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Kimora Lee Simmons is well-recognized as an American model, businesswoman, fashion designer, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, TV personality, philanthropist, and author.

Kimora Lee Simmons’s husbands

Simmons has been married twice. She first met Russell Simmons in November 1992 at ‘Fashion Week’ in New York City.

At the impressionable age of 17, she was swept off her feet by the lavish attention given to her by Russell and ended up getting married on December 20, 1998. The couple separated in March 2006 and got divorced in January 2009.

Simmons started dating Djimon Hounsou, a model and an actor and the next year took part in a traditional Benin commitment ritual in March 2007. The couple, however, never got married legally in America, and separated in November 2012.

Simmons confirmed in February 2014 that she had been married for some time to Tim Leissner, a former ‘Goldman Sachs banker who had been barred by American market regulators from participating in the securities market for his failure to provide work-related documents.

Kimora Lee Simmons’s children

Simmons is a mother of five, two daughters, and three sons namely Ming Lee Simmons, Aoki Lee Simmons, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, Wolf Lee Leissner, and Gary Lee Foster.

Kimora Lee Simmons’s parents

Simmons is the daughter of Joanne Perkins her mother and Vernon Whitlock Jr. her father. Her father is of African-American and her mother is of Japanese-Korean.

Kimora Lee Simmons’s siblings

Simmons seems to be the only child of her parents and does not have any known siblings.

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