Lourdes Leon

Lourdes Maria "Lola" Ciccone Leon (born October 14, 1996) is an American fashion model, dancer and singer. She is the biological daughter of Madonna. In September 2021, she appeared on an ensemble cast cover of Vogue. As of August 2022, Leon began releasing her own music under the moniker Lolahol. Early life and education Leon was born in Los Angeles, California, on the afternoon of October 14, 1996, to American singer, songwriter, and actress Madonna Ciccone and personal trainer and actor Carlos Leon. Her mother is of Italian and French-Canadian ancestry, while her father is of Cuban heritage. She has multiple siblings from her parents' subsequent marriages and adoptions, respectively, including a paternal half-brother, a maternal half-brother, Rocco, from her mother's marriage to British film director Guy Ritchie, as well as a maternal brother, a sister and twin sisters each born in Malawi. Her mother put her in ballet classes beginning at age three after she expressed an interest. Leon grew up in New York City and went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, a performing arts school in Manhattan. Among other students, actor Timothée Chalamet also attended the school and she regards him as her first boyfriend. After graduating, she began college at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, but transferred to New York's Purchase College citing witnessing supporters of Donald Trump among the student body; she continued studying dance intensively at Purchase.