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LL Cool J, 56, is 'grateful' for his four children and three grandchildren now that he's an empty nester: 'They have to go after their dreams'


Three of the two-time Grammy winner's adult kids have graduated from college and are thriving on their own. And he's been married to his wife Simone I. Smith for 28 years.

The two-time Grammy winner's 28-year-old daughter Samaria Leah Wisdom Smith owns her self-titled denim company after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. LL's 28-year-old daughter Samaria Leah Wisdom Smith (R, pictured in 2023) owns her self-titled denim company after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York The two-time Grammy winner's 34-year-old son Najee Laurent Todd Eugene Smith (R, pictured September 29) works for his hip-hop organization Rock the Bells and its 'The F.O.R.C.E.

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