{"id":2082,"date":"2026-03-03T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:11:02","slug":"kimora-lee-simmons-wants-to-drop-russells-last-name-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Kimora Lee Simmons Wants To Drop Russell&#8217;s Last Name (HOLD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimora Lee Simmons looks like she wants to make her life simple &#8230; because she&#8217;s looking to officially drop the last names of a couple of her exes, including Russell Simmons.<\/p>\n<p>According to legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Kimora filed paperwork to change her name from Kimora Lee Simmons-Leissner to Kimora Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning &#8230; Kimora says she wants the change for &#8220;consolidation of records and names used in different documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kimora married Russell in 1998 &#8230; they divorced in 2009, but she kept Simmons as a last name. She married Tim Leissner in 2014 and apparently joined his surname with Simmons to become Kimora Lee Simmons-Leissner. Kimora and Tim separated in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Kimora was born Kimora Lee Perkins in St. Louis &#8230; but it looks like she doesn&#8217;t want to go back to that and is instead looking to shorten her name to just Kimora Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ &#8230; Kimora&#8217;s been on her own foundation for decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: RhinoEasy News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimora Lee Simmons looks like she wants to make her life simple &#8230; because she&#8217;s looking to officially drop the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}