{"id":48157,"date":"2025-10-01T02:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48157\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:34:06","slug":"lionel-richie-on-brenda-harvey-richie-diane-alexanders-1988-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48157\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie on Brenda Harvey-Richie, Diane Alexander&#8217;s 1988 Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That\u2019s the saddest day in the life of a marriage,&#8221; Lionel added of the ordeal between himself and Brenda. &#8220;When you know you may love each other, still, and you have a history that you will always have, but it\u2019s over. And you know it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Lionel didn&#8217;t get his happily ever after with Diane, either. After welcoming son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1372478\/why-sofia-richies-brother-miles-richie-missed-her-wedding-to-elliot-grainge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Miles Richie<\/a> in 1994 and daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/sofia_richie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sofia Richie<\/a> in 1998, the couple called it quits in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will forever give it up to both of my exes for being strong, loving, and devoted moms,&#8221; the &#8220;Lady&#8221; artist wrote in his memoir. &#8220;Nicole and Brenda were two peas in a pod from the start. Miles and Sofia adore Diane, as she adores them both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to Brenda and Diane for comment but hasn&#8217;t heard back.<\/p>\n<p>For more celebrities who were caught up in relationship scandals, read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;That\u2019s the saddest day in the life of a marriage,&#8221; Lionel added of the ordeal between himself and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-48157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}