Kim was born September 19, 1964 in Mineola, New York to Kathleen Mary Dugan and Kenneth Edwin Richards, a business executive. She is of Irish, English, and Welsh descent. Kim made her TV commercial debut at four months in a diaper ad. By age four and a half Kim had already appeared in 20 TV commercials. Richards made her television series debut in 1970 on the show _"Nanny and the Professor" .
Older sister of Kyle Richards. Younger half-sister of Kathy Hilton.
Father: Ken, who died in 1998. Mother: Kathleen, or Kathy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in the same year. They separated in 1972.
Is contemplating returning to acting now that her youngest child Kimberly is in school.
Aunt of Nicky Rothschild , Barron Hilton , Conrad Hilton , and Paris Hilton.
Sister-in-law of Rick Hilton
Made her acting debut in a diaper commercial when only four months old.
Made 20 TV commercials before she was even four and a half years old.
Richards current boyfriend, Maine entrepreneur Todd Jason Voisine, has been instrumental in Richards "comeback career" as she has begun appearing in public more frequently of late. They met in 2009.
Daughter of Kathy Richards and Ken Richards.
Attended Imperial High School in Imperial, CA, class of 1983.
Daughter with first husband G. Monty Brinson : Brooke Brinson (b. February 21, 1986).
Daughter with second husband Gregg Davis: Whitney Davis (b. March 16, 1990).
Son with second husband Gregg Davis: Chad Davis (b. May 26, 1991).
Daughter with ex-boyfriend John Jackson: Kimberly Jackson .
Her mother was of Irish descent. Her paternal grandparents were from Newfoundland, Canada, and had Welsh and English ancestry.
Moved to Arizona to be with mother, who had breast cancer.
(October 2010) Appearing in "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" , prompting the question of whether there are really "housewives" in Beverly Hills.
Was engaged to commodities salesman John J. Collett (whom she met at an AA meeting) at the time of his murder on October 28, 1991. Collett, 29, was gunned down by a hit man outside a San Fernando Valley deli in what may have been a business scheme gone horribly wrong.
First husband G. Monty Brinson was heir to a supermarket franchise. Second husband Gregg Davis was the son of billionaire oil and entertainment mogul Marvin Davis. Richards met aircraft parts supplier John Jackson in 1992 when the mother of her late fianc John J. Collett sold Colletts Harley-Davidson motorcycle to Jackson.
Was on the RIAAs technology advisory committee that recommended the implementation of Compact Discs as a new medium. Arguing that CDs were the wave of the future, Richards analogized vinyl discs to CDs the same as 8 track tapes were to cassettes. Although the effort met reluctance at retail, Richards helped broker a deal to use oversized packaging to satisfy the concerns of retailers at the reduced size of CDs, resulting in the industrys adoption of the then new technology.
Ran sound on weekends for Steely Dan at a nightclub called The Sopwith Camel at the age of 14. Richards could only be in the nightclub during the bands performances due to alcohol beverage control laws.
Was the youngest sound engineer at the Greek Theater at the age of 13, having first worked as an usher, parlaying that into an assistant sound engineer.
Kim Richards addressing the Recording Industry Association of America,Technology Committee, of which he was a member at the time CDs were,adopted. .
