Kimora Lee Simmons

Kimora Lee Leissner is an American former fashion model and fashion designer. She took over Baby Phat after Russell Simmons and was CEOCreative Director through 2010.

Kimora Lee Perkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her Japanese mother, Joanne Perkins, was adopted by an American serviceman during the Korean War and raised in the USA. She later worked as an administrator for Social Security. Kimoras father, Vernon Whitlock Jr., is African American, and worked as a Federal Marshal, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigator, a bail bondsman, and later became a barber in St. Louis. He was sentenced to prison when Kimora was in grade school for distribution of narcotics. It was substantiated in the U.S. District Court that government agents attempted to recruit Withlock as an informant in exchange for probation, but he vehemently refused. Consequently, he was refused probation and was taken off his 500,000 bond and was given the 24year sentence he was released after five years. Her parents split up and she was raised by her mother.

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