--- title: Nicole Richie Reveals Her Meanest Prank to Jimmy Kimmel description: No one is safe from her practical jokes canonical: https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-31T11:11:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:51.020Z og:title: Nicole Richie Reveals Her Meanest Prank to Jimmy Kimmel og:description: No one is safe from her practical jokes og:url: https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23849872223b1f8d/69885d4f35ba6f3729c0e711/nicole-richie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Nicole Richie On "Extra" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nicole Richie Reveals Her Meanest Prank to Jimmy Kimmel twitter:description: No one is safe from her practical jokes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23849872223b1f8d/69885d4f35ba6f3729c0e711/nicole-richie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nicole Richie Reveals The Meanest Prank She Ever Played to Jimmy Kimmel by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 31, 2015 11:11 AM UTC  Nicole Richie visits "Extra" at Universal Studios Hollywood on July 17, 2015 in Universal City, Calif. Nicole Richie visits "Extra" at Universal Studios Hollywood on July 17, 2015 in Universal City, Calif.Noel Vasquez—Getty Images by [Tara John](https://time.com/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jul 31, 2015 11:11 AM UTC Nicole Richie recounted her meanest April Fool’s joke on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ Thursday night, where she had a friend tell her dad, Lionel Richie, that she had been arrested. “I had a guy friend of mine wake him from a dead sleep at around 3:30 or 4 in the morning and say they are from Nevada police and that I had been arrested,” said Richie. The uncensored version of the story was revealed a few years back to Andy Cohen. According to the former _The Simple Life_ star, it happened right after she left rehab, involved a security guard and the reason for her (fake) arrest was cocaine possession. This shouldn’t have come as that big of surprise to those who know Richie well, as she is no stranger to pranks. Perennial targets have included both Kim and Khloe Kardashian, who’ve had their Twitter accounts hacked by Richie two years in a row. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/"},"headline":"Nicole Richie Reveals The Meanest Prank She Ever Played to Jimmy Kimmel","datePublished":"2015-07-31T11:11:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:51.020Z","description":"Her dad Lionel Richie was the target!","url":"https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","jimmy kimmel live"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23849872223b1f8d/69885d4f35ba6f3729c0e711/nicole-richie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23849872223b1f8d/69885d4f35ba6f3729c0e711/nicole-richie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nicole Richie On \"Extra\"","caption":"Nicole Richie On \"Extra\"","creditText":"Noel Vasquez—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3979929/nicole-richie-jmmy-kimmel-live/","name":"Nicole Richie Reveals The Meanest Prank She Ever Played to Jimmy Kimmel"}}]}] ```