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Seal adopted Leni in 2009, four years after marrying her mother, ex-wife and model Heidi Klum, 50. Klum had Leni with Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.

Seal and Klum also share sons Henry Günther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, 17, Johan Samuel, 16, and daughter Lou Sulola Samuel, 13.

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