Top 25 Celebrity Adoptions of All Time: Lionel Richie and Sharon Stone

Lionel Richie Celebrity Adoption>#23: Say You, Say Me, Say Baby<br /> If you’ve ever wondered why reality TV star Nicole Richie looks nothing like her famous father, here’s why. In 1984, Lionel and his then wife Brenda informally adopted the three year-old daughter of one of their backstage assistants, who’d previously had a brief fling with one of his session drummers. Although they raised her as their own, the adoption was only formalized in 1990, when Nicole was nine. Ritchie, for his part, has fathered two further children by his now-dissolved subsequent marriage to Diane Alexander. Today, Nicole is a successful LA socialite, minor TV star and mother to Harlow and Sparrow. </p> <p><img src= Click here to see the next two celebrity adoptions: Elton John and Katherine Heigl

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