As Sean “Diddy” Combs’ authorized troubles proceed to unfold and the allegations develop heavier by the day, one query retains surfacing throughout social media timelines and group chat conversations alike: What in regards to the infants? For a lot of, that query most urgently issues Combs’ younger daughters, 18-year-old twins D’Lila and Jessie, who misplaced their mom in 2018.
Just lately, Kimora Lee Simmons supplied uncommon perception into how the ladies are actually doing, and extra importantly, who has been holding them down.
“I’ve my children, after which I’ve children on the facet,” Simmons stated in a latest look on In the present day with Jenna & Associates.
The model-turned-mogul was an in depth pal of the twins’ mom, Kim Porter, who died unexpectedly in 2018 from pneumonia. Since then, they’ve additionally misplaced the each day presence of their father, who’s at present serving a greater than four-year federal sentence for prostitution-related costs, handed down after he was arrested in 2024 on racketeering, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution counts.
Within the absence of each mother and father, Simmons has quietly stepped right into a central maternal position for the Combs twins, explaining: “I’ve a stepdaughter, properly, an extra daughter. I’ve one other son, a bonus son, who’s on the present, Jaden, one other one who’s simply been with us for a lot of, a few years.”
“One in every of my buddies who handed away, Kim Porter, I’ve all of her children. Regardless that a few of them are adults, however a few of them are 18, twins,” she continued. “They’re with me. I simply received off the cellphone with them.”
Now Simmons’ revelation is a testomony to a mantra many Black households have honored for generations: “It takes a village” to boost kids. Because the Child Phat founder famous, she’s “lots of people’s mothers.” Simmons has grownup daughters, Aoki and Ming, from her earlier marriage to Russell Simmons, a son, Kenzo, along with her former companion Djimon Hounsou, and a son, Wolfe, with ex-husband Tim Leissner. Moreover, she adopted a son named Gary when he was 10 years outdated.
“I’ve numerous assist. It takes a village,” she continuedd. “I’ve godmoms and aunties and buddies…It’s actually a village of ladies. I’m supported by ladies.”
