{"id":2384846,"date":"2026-04-22T20:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2384846"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:53:18","slug":"real-housewives-kim-zolciaks-ex-boyfriend-lee-najjar-dies-at-68-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/real-housewives-kim-zolciaks-ex-boyfriend-lee-najjar-dies-at-68-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives Kim Zolciak’s ex-boyfriend Lee Najjar dies at 68 – Celebrity News – Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lee “Big Poppa” Najjar died at the age of 68.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Atlanta real estate investor, known to Real Housewives fans as Kim Zolciak\u2019s former flame, died on Saturday, April 18. Lee’s daughter, Katelin Najjar, confirmed the news through her Instagram, as she posted memories on her Instagram Story and made a Reel titled “Baba Forever.” The Reel included video and pictures of the pair, along with writings about death and loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lee “Big Poppa” Najjar died at the age of 68. The Atlanta real estate investor, known to Real Housewives fans as Kim Zolciak\u2019s former flame, died on Saturday, April 18. Lee’s daughter, Katelin Najjar, confirmed the news through her Instagram, as she posted memories on her Instagram Story and made a Reel titled “Baba Forever.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22860,311686],"class_list":["post-2384846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-hollywood","tag-the-real-housewives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Real-Housewives-Kim-Zolciaks-ex-boyfriend-Lee-Najjar-dies-at-68.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384848,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384846\/revisions\/2384848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}