Who Is Devon Aoki's Husband James Bailey? Marriage, Career and Children

Devon Aoki’s husband is James Bailey.

Bailey is an American financier and investor. He is best known publicly as Aoki’s husband, but his own career is in finance, not acting or modelling.

He is the founder and managing partner of Velos Partners, a consumer growth capital firm based in Los Angeles.

The couple keep their private life largely out of public view. They married in 2011 and have four children together.

James Bailey at a Glance

Name: James Bailey, also reported as James Hunter Bailey
Wife: Devon Aoki, married 2011
Profession: Financier and investor; founder and managing partner of Velos Partners
Children: Four — one son and three daughters
Home base: Los Angeles, California, as reported in family profiles

Who Is Devon Aoki?

Devon Edwenna Aoki was born on 10 August 1982 in New York City, United States.

She is an American model and retired actress. She started modelling at 13, after her godmother introduced her to Kate Moss.

At 16, she succeeded Naomi Campbell as the face of Versace. She went on to work for houses including Chanel, Christian Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Her best-known film roles include:

Suki in 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Miho in Sin City (2005)
Kasumi in DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
Valerie Duval in Mutant Chronicles (2008)

She also appeared in D.E.B.S. (2004) and War (2007).

Who Is James Bailey?

James Bailey is a financier, not an actor.

He is the founder and managing partner of Velos Partners, a firm that invests in consumer growth companies, including retail, health and wellness, and luxury entertainment businesses.

Several biographies describe him as a Harvard University graduate and a venture capital investor who previously worked at Accel Partners. Those career details are widely repeated, but Bailey himself keeps a low profile, so this article does not add unverified detail about his early life, birth date or net worth.

He should not be confused with other men named James Bailey. In particular, he is not the actor linked online to The Goonies, The Outsiders or Family Ties. Those credits belong to a different person and have been removed from this updated article.

How Devon Aoki and James Bailey Met and Married

Devon Aoki and James Bailey became engaged in 2010, according to multiple biographies.

They married in 2011. Several sources give the date as 23 April 2011 and describe a private ceremony with close family and friends.

Some older reports gave a different year for a secret ceremony. The consistent, widely reported position across recent biographies is marriage in 2011, and that is the year used here.

The couple have not made their wedding a public event. Details that appeared in the old version of this article — a blind date, a Four Seasons Hotel ceremony in Los Angeles, a white bridal theme, and a specific dress description — could not be verified and have been removed.

Do Devon Aoki and James Bailey Have Children?

Yes. Devon Aoki and James Bailey have four children, not two.

Child	Born
James Hunter Bailey Jr.	10 June 2011
Alessandra Linville Bailey	12 February 2013
Eleanor Talitha Bailey	2015
Evelyn Bailey	2020

James Hunter is their only son. Alessandra, Eleanor and Evelyn are their daughters.

Alessandra has already followed her mother into modelling work, including a Guess Kids campaign.

The old version of this article gave several wrong dates. It said Devon had her first child in 2006, at 26, and later had two more children. In fact, her first child, James Hunter, was born in June 2011, when Devon was 28.

It also mixed up the children’s names, at one point spelling Hunter’s middle name as Yoshiaki Lee and later as Yoshiki Lee. His reported full name is James Hunter Bailey Jr.

How Old Was Devon Aoki When She Had Her First Child?

Devon Aoki was 28 when her first child was born.

She was born on 10 August 1982. James Hunter Bailey Jr. was born on 10 June 2011, about two months before her 29th birthday.

Devon Aoki’s Family

Devon Aoki is the daughter of Hiroaki “Rocky” Aoki, founder of the Benihana restaurant chain, and Pamela Hilburger, a jewellery designer.

Her brother Steve Aoki is a well-known musician and DJ.

Devon’s parents divorced when she was young, and she moved to California with her mother and siblings. She grew up mainly in California after being born in New York.

Are Devon Aoki and James Bailey Still Married?

As far as public reports show, yes.

No divorce has been reported. Biographies updated in 2025 and 2026 still describe the couple as married, with more than a decade of marriage behind them.

They live a notably private family life compared with many celebrity couples, and they are rarely photographed together in public.

What About Devon Aoki’s Net Worth?

Some celebrity net worth sites put Devon Aoki’s net worth at $30 million.

That figure is an estimate from a single type of source, not a verified financial disclosure. It has not been kept as a fact in this update.

What is clear is that her income came from a long modelling career at the top of fashion, plus film roles in the 2000s, rather than from any single film.

What Was Wrong With the Old Article?

The old version mixed up two different James Baileys, gave three different wedding years, and gave the wrong number of children and the wrong birth years.

It also included a wholly false section claiming Devon Aoki has Down syndrome and was the first model with Down syndrome on the cover of Vogue Italia. That is not true, and it has been removed entirely.

Claims about Bailey donating to specific charities, working as a real estate agent, or working as a property developer could not be verified and have also been removed.

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