Lionel Richie lifts lid on 1988 scandal that ended his first marriage

Lionel Richie He talks for the first time about the scandal that ended his first marriage about four decades ago.

In June 1988, Richie’s first wife, Brenda Harvey Ricci, was arrested after facing the icon of music and his second wife in the future, Diane Alexander, in the apartment of Alexander Beverly Hills at about 2:30 am.

Although the confrontation was widely reported at the time, Richie did not deal with it publicly.

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However, 76 -year -old singer broke his silence in his upcoming memoirs, “really”, as he narrated what happened that night.

Richie wrote: “What a few people knew is that Brenda was separated.”

In his memoirs, Lionel Ricci talks about the 1988 bad incident that ended his first marriage to Brenda Harvey Rich. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

He continued, “I got a place on the beach, and I was hiding there, trying to be alone, trying to decipher his pressure in some way, because he was killing everyone. It is early in the morning when I drive the car to the city, and stop seeing Diane, who has an apartment in a house there.

“This is not a place for safety, not a gates accommodation, just an apartment opens on the street,” Richie added. “When the door opens, Brenda stands there. There is an enormous confrontation. Diane is in full shock and try to leave, to draw Brenda far away. It is the most screaming match in my life, all in this small entrance.”

Four times Grammy Award He recalled the winner that at that time, he was considering how to defuse the situation.

Brenda was arrested after Richie and Alexander were struck. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

“The question is – how do you stop it? How do you move physically a tragedy that explodes in front of you?” Ricci wrote. “I thought that if she left, Brenda will leave. She entered her car, at first. But as soon as she went, she returned and resumed the argument. The neighbors called the police. The charges were brought and then dropped.”

He recalls, “The story has become a century scandal.” “It took her own life. Thank God, there was no social media.”

According to contemporary reports By upi and Los Angeles Times, Brenda, 35 years old, was arrested, and she was booked on suspicion of having a husband from the husband, resisting detention, assaulting the property of others, sabotage, battery, and disturbance of peace.

Los Angeles police said the neighbors had been screaming inside the Alexander apartment. The officers found Brenda “hitting and kicking the victim on the ground,” according to UPI.

A police report stated.

Richie, who was identified as a “second victim”, told the officers later that Brenda kicked him in the stomach before leaving the scene.

Brenda was released on that day on bail of $ 5,000.

The two former couple were released in 1993. (Ron Galila Group via Getti Emaiz)

In “really”, Richie reminds how to deal with questions from friends and family as well as checking the media in the aftermath of the accident.

“Usually, I was using my southern upbringing to” Bakhz “is the word observation in the south.”

“There is always a way to rotate everything,” Richie said. “It is not this time. The most painful part, the tragedy of our lives, was that Brenda was sad. I got it. My ladies and pillow, get it. You never know what you will do or feel it until you are at the moment when he was in your face. None of us was in this situation.”

“This was not Alabama; this was like new brand series here,” he added. “No one was ready. We all deserved a pass because we did not know what the story would be. It was raw, ugly and catastrophic.”

Singer Remember that the accident was a turning point in his marriage with Brenda.

“Before that morning, I remember that there is a cloud of uncertainty about whether I want to try to reconcile and not separate. Since then, it has been difficult to find the way back.”

“This is the most miserable day in the life of marriage.” “When you know that you may love each other, however, you have a history you will always have, but it is finished. And you know that.”

Richie and Brenda shared her daughter Nicole Richie. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

Richie and Brenda met in the early seventies of the last century when they were both students at the University Dean.

In October 1975, the couple married and became the legal guardians of Nicole Ricci, the daughter of their music friends, Beit Eskovito and Karen Moss, in 1983. The former couple adopted Nicole in 1990 when she was nine years old.

During an interview 2022 with People Magazine, The American Idol judge described Nicole as a “gift of gods.”

Diane Alexander became Richie’s second wife in 1995. (Leicester Cohen/Getti Emaiz)

“She was a little girl who needed a shot,” he said. “She was accustomed to coming and going. I looked at me and said,” I will not go anywhere. “

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In his memoirs, Ricci recalled that he met Alexander for the first time during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where he performed a performance at the closing ceremony. She later appeared as a dancer in the 1986 music video. Richie wrote that the two had grown during his outrageous global tour 1986-1987.

Lionel recalls that he was suffering from marital problems for years due to the pressure of his fame. The two finished their divorce in 1993, but he continued to participate in the parents Nicole.

Richie and Alexander married in 1995. They welcomed his son Miles in 1994 and Sofia’s daughter In 1998.

The former couple, who share the son Miles and his daughter Sofia in 2004. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

“The family was an anchor,” Richie wrote. “With my children, my heart all over the room was looking. There is Nikki, Then Miles, then here comes a sofa, a small angel and spend the greatest time in the world. “

However, Ricci recalled the marriage stumbling because of his constant travel and Alexander hated music.

“At her discretion, it was the one that left me – which I discovered on a trip to London after one of the players in the band handed me a British newspaper that reported how we went to divorce.”

Richie, Alexander and Sophia were filmed in 2012 in ACMS. (Kevin Winter/ACMA2012/Getty Images for ACM)

“If it was up to me, I would have urged – with our wonderful children and everything – and I just tried to make everyone happy, even if I was married in my heart in the field of music.”

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“It is possible that it has given us a favor by calling the situation for what it was, although it was not less tragic.” “It was painfully slowly drip – faded a thousand cuts – over the next four years to the end.”

After nearly a contract of marriage, Richie and Alexander applied for divorce in 2004, noting “unbearable differences.”

Richie has been in a relationship with Lisa Barigi since 2014. She is 40 years old. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Silpmagic)

Since 2014, Richie has been in a relationship with Lisa Bariji, who is 40 years old. During his incitement in 2022 in the Rock & Roll Celebrity Hall, Lionel referred to Parji as “my heart”.

In an interview with 2019 with People Magazine, Richie was reflected in finding love again with Bariji.

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“She is very beautiful, but she is more important to her that she is smart and helps me deal with my crazy world,” Richie said about his girlfriend.

He added: “At this time of my life when you are very troubled by things, Lisa type makes everything feel a little safe.”

Richie called himself “hopeless romance of it.” (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images)

While talking to the port, Richie described himself as a “hopeless romantic of him” and shared the lessons he learned about love.

Richie said: “I am a man who passed through climbing and landing, and the office of approval and mystery.”

“Love is not an accurate science, it is something you should go through,” he pointed out. “People do not walk in love, and people fall, which means that you are out of control, there is no logic.”

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