Kimora Lee PerkinsKimora Lee Simmons (born Kimora Lee Perkins on May 4, 1975) is an American model, author, the head of design for Baby Phat, KLS, a new line called Fabulosity, and is occasionally an actress. Simmons’ ancestry is African from her father and Japanese-Korean from her mother’s side of the family. Simmons became CEO of Phat Fashions after her ex-husband Russell Simmons stepped down.
Simmons was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She is of Japanese and African American descent. Her mother is Joanne Perkins (who was adopted by an American serviceman during the Korean War and renamed Joanne Perkins), who now goes by the Japanese name “Kyoko”, which she asserts was her “full blooded Japanese mother’s name. Her father is African American Vernon Whitlock Jr., who previously worked as a federal marshal, a social security administrator, and then a barber in St. Louis. He served three years for drug charges while Simmons was in grade school.
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Jan 18, 1999
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September 25th, 2007
It's such a fade within Hollywood to parade around town with a Kathoey from Bangkok. Russell Simmons is one of the industries moguls who frequents Thailand, Bangkok. They say - that katheoy's who can carry children are more profitable. I wonder if Russell met Kimora at this wedding ceremony:
Jet
April 20, 1998
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