Nicole Richie (Nicole Camilla Escovedo) was born on September 21, 1981. Nicole Richie is a socialite best known for her role in The Simple Life and sometimes by her former friendship with heiress Paris Hilton.

Nicole Richie was born in Berkeley, California. Her biological father is believed by some to be percussionist Peter Escovedo III, brother of Sheila E. Her mother is a woman identified only as an assistant on Lionel Richie's 1980 world tour. When Nicole was 9, Lionel Richie formally adopted her.



Nicole is trained in cello, violin, piano, and figure skating, and has plans to pursue a music career. She also attended the University of Arizona for two years after graduating from high school. She stated,

"I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better."

She made her musical debut in February 2005 with a live appearance on ABC's The View playing the piano. Her godfather is Michael Jackson.







Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton starred in the 2003 reality series The Simple Life, in which they lived for a month with a family in the rural community of Altus, Arkansas. Later seasons of the show had Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton in a road-trip across the United States, and an East Coast trek on a Greyhound bus while performing various internships. She has also made appearances in films and Fox's Madtv. Her first major acting role was a supporting role as cheerleader Kelly Stepford in 2005 comedy Kids In America.

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Nicole Richie recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Truth About Diamonds. The novel is loosely based on her life, but is mostly fictional. It chronicles Chloe Parker, the adopted daughter of a singer who makes her way through all of the hottest nightclubs and parties in Hollywood and battles a drug addiction. Rumors have said that a character in the book, Simone Westlake, is based on Nicole's ex-best friend, Paris Hilton. Simone does a few things extremely similar to Paris Hilton, such as

"accidentally on purpose" losing her cell phone and letting out the phone numbers of celebrities to the general public.

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While former best friend Paris Hilton has the catchphrase "That's Hot", Nicole Richie has one of her own in the same vein: "Loves It."
Another current project of Richie's is an album, with no release date specified as of yet. The seven songs reported to be done so far are a mixture of rock, soul and dance.




Nicole Richie is set to inherit her father's $365 million dollar fortune.


She was engaged to club DJ Adam Goldstein also known as D.J. AM. Instead of a diamond ring Goldstein proposed with a sapphire ring, the stone of her birth. They announced their engagement in February 2005 after dating since 2003 and were set to marry in early 2006. On December 7th, 2005, she and Adam broke off their 9 month engagement. Since that time, Nicole has been linked with Kevin Lafreniere with sightings of the pair all over Los Angeles and near his hometown in Texas. Kevin is an up-and-coming songwriter who is working with her on several songs for her album which is set to be released in late 2006. Kevin was asked about Nicole and he commented,

"She is amazing, awesome and talented."

During 2006, she was seen hanging out with MTV's "Jackass" star Steve-O. It is rumored that they are a couple.