Kimora Lee Leissner is known as Kimora Lee Simmons is an American fashion model and fashion designer. She took over Baby Phat after Russell Simmons and was CEO/creative director through 2010. She had her own reality television shows Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane and Kimora: House of Fab.
Kimora Lee Simmons was born on May 3, 1975, in St. Louis, Missouri. She holds American nationality and belongs to mixed (half African-American, one-quarter Korean and one-quarter Japanese). She attended Lutheran North High School located in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from there. She has exclusive contract modeling for Coco Chanel at the age of thirteen.
Kimora Lee Simmons was born to a father named Vernon Whitlock Jr. and mother named Joanne "Kyoko" Perkins. Her father worked as a Federal Marshal, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigator, a bail bondsman, and later became a barber in St. Louis. Kimora was in grade school, her father was sentenced to prison for the distribution of narcotics. Her parents got separated after the returning of her father from jail.
Kimora Lee Simmons height of 6 ft. Her weight is currently unknown. Her hair color is dark black and her eye is black.
Kimora Lee Simmons is a married woman. In 1992, she met Russell Simmons during New York City's Fashion Week. The couple was married by Simmons's brother, rapper and Pentecostal minister, Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons of Run- DMC, on the Caribbean island of St. Barts' on December 20, 1998. They have two daughters, Ming Lee Simmons, and Aoki Lee Simmons. The couple separated in March 2006, She filed for divorce from Russell Simmons in March 2008. Their divorce was finalized in January 2009. In March 2007, she was dating actor and model Djimon Hounsou. She gave birth to their son Kenzo Lee Hounsou on May 30, 2009. They were never legally married in the United States and announced their separation in November 2012. In February 2014, She confirmed that she is married to former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner. She gave birth in April 2015 to a baby boy named Wolfe Lee Leissner.
Kimora Lee Simmons estimated net worth of $50 million but her salary has not been revealed yet.
Kimora Lee Simmons was given a Tony Award as the executive producer of the critically acclaimed Russel Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam in 2003. In 2008, Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored her with the Susan Block Silver Ripper Award.