Lauren London's Family Timeline: What We Actually Know
She's had two children with two different fathers, and the public records on this are clearer than most celebrity baby drama. Let me walk through it. Her first son, London Tre Owens, was born June 8, 2013. His father is the late Nipsey Hussle (Eramas Akon Lete Asante). They were in a long-term relationship starting around 2010 and made their pregnancy public in early 2013. The co-parenting arrangement between them was widely reported and relatively straightforward — no custody battles, no paternity disputes. Nipsey Hussle died in March 2019 from a shooting in Los Angeles. He was 33 years old. London was 27 at the time of his death, and London Tre was six.
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The second child is a daughter named Kross Berlin Owens, born August 11, 2021. Her father is Berlin Bey, a music producer and songwriter who has worked with artists like Teyana Taylor and Fabolous. Berlin Bey is an American of Caribbean descent (Saint Lucian on his mother's side) and has been mostly off-camera when it comes to media. Their relationship became public around 2019-2020 after Lauren and Nipsey's separation. The two married in a private ceremony in 2023 but later separated. There hasn't been any public legal dispute over the child the way you sometimes see with celebrity parents. The reason people get confused or start theorizing about this stuff is usually one of two things. First, there's a gap between 2019 and 2021 that some people fill in with speculation. That gap covers her breakup with Nipsey, her time as a single mom, and the early stages of her relationship with Berlin Bey. Nothing was confirmed during that window, and that vacuum is exactly where rumors breed. Second, her Instagram and social media posts sometimes reference family life without naming names or giving dates. You see a photo of a kid, a birthday post, a holiday picture, and the internet starts connecting dots that aren't actually there. I remember going down a Reddit thread once where someone was cross-referencing Nipsey's verified social posts with Lauren's Instagram stories, trying to map out the exact month they separated. The conclusion they kept circling back to was always "around mid-2019" based on the absence of couple photos and a few indirect captions. But even that timing isn't officially confirmed by either party. They never announced a split with a press statement or anything. It was just gradual silence on both sides, which is honestly the most realistic way these things go when nobody's trying to make a story out of it.
There's also a persistent but easily debunked rumor that Nipsey Hussle had children with other women before London. He didn't. London Tre was his only confirmed child. That part of the record is clean. Sometimes people bring up Lauren's relationship with actor Omari Hardwick, who played a role in the movie ATL with her, and speculate about paternity for fun. There's zero evidence for that. They worked together, dated briefly around 2010 according to various reports, and that's it. Nipsey Hussle was the father of her first child. Another thing that causes confusion is the last name situation. Both children carry the surname Owens, which is Lauren's maiden name. Berlin Bey's actual last name isn't Owens — he kept his own surname, and London has publicly said she chose Owens because it honors her family lineage. The kids don't have Berlin Bey's last name on paper, though he is named as the father on Kross Berlin's birth certificate.
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Here's the practical takeaway for anyone actually trying to track this stuff down: start with the birth records. The Los Angeles County vital records office will have the filed documents. Birth certificate for London Tre Owens lists Nipsey Hussle as father. Birth certificate for Kross Berlin Owens lists Berlin Bey as father. Everything else is commentary on top of those two facts. For the later timeline stuff — the marriage, the separation, the current co-parenting dynamic — the only reliable sources are Lauren's own interviews. She's spoken to outlets like Essence, People, and Good Morning America about balancing motherhood and career. Those are primary sources. Tabloid pieces that claim to know details about their private arrangements are almost never accurate, and the ones that try to connect her to other potential fathers are just clickbait with no sourcing. The one edge case worth mentioning: there was a brief period in 2020 where some outlets ran stories suggesting Lauren was dating someone else while she was still technically with Nipsey. The timeline didn't hold up under scrutiny because Nipsey's death in March 2019 made that impossible. The stories either had the dates wrong or were conflating her with another celebrity. It's a good example of why you should always check the dates before trusting a gossip narrative. The math doesn't work out.
If you're digging into this for content creation or research purposes, the best approach is to anchor everything to the two confirmed births and work outward from there. Anything beyond that is context, not fact. The co-parenting relationship between Lauren and Nipsey before his death was described by her as respectful. The relationship between her and Berlin Bey has been more complicated but still functional from what she's shared publicly. Neither relationship involved public legal conflict over the children.