Harry Abdul and Lorraine M. Rykiss welcomed Paula Abdul into the world in the United States on June 19, 1962, in San Fernando, California. Her family has roots in Russia and Ukraine and is of Jewish origin. Wendy is the name of her elder sister.
Harry, Paula's father, was an immigrant from Aleppo, Syria, who first settled in Brazil before moving to the United States. Jewish Ashkenazi Lorraine (Rykiss) is the mother of Paula and hails from Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Paula's four maternal great-grandparents were all born in Russia, Ukraine, or Eastern Europe. Due to her musical taste, some have connected her to the black community.
She wed Emilio Estevez in 1992, but they later got divorced. She married Brad Beckerman in 1996, and the two eventually got a divorce.
Her relationships with co-host Simon Cowell, a younger restaurateur J.T. Torregiani, and Corey Clark, a contestant on "American Idol," have all been controversial.
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