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LOS ANGELES - Socialite Nicole Richie and her rock-star boyfriend became the parents of a daughter in Los Angeles on Friday, People magazine reported.
Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, People said, quoting a spokesman for Richie's manager.
It is the first child for Richie, 26, and Joel Madden, 28, the lead singer of pop-punk band Good Charlotte.
Richie, the adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie, has become a tabloid staple in recent years on account of her party-hopping lifestyle, stick-thin figure, and fractured friendship with Paris Hilton, her co-star in the reality TV series The Simple Life.
A pregnant Richie spent an hour in a Los Angeles jail in August after being sentenced to four days for driving the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway while under the influence of drugs.
Prison overcrowding in Los Angeles County means nonviolent offenders often spend only a fraction of their sentences behind bars.
- REUTERS
