Russell Simmons had quite the eventful Father’s Day, getting blasted online by not only his ex, Kimora Lee, but their children as well.
The drama started early on Sunday morning (June 18), when Russ and Kimora’s oldest, Ming, wished her mom a Happy Father’s Day on her Instagram Story. In turn, Russell took to his story with a not-so-subtle message, posting a meme that read: “Stop telling fathers they should have fought harder to see their children and start asking mothers why he had to fight at all.”
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The following day, Kimora let the choppa fly, taking to Instagram Live to air her ex-husband out. Among other things, the Baby Phat mogul said that she’s had Russ blocked for some time now, yet he still posts on social media as if they’re tight. Their youngest daughter Aoki then joined in, sharing not-so-nice messages from her father and even a muted video where he is manically raging at her on FaceTime.
According to Aoki, she and her family have exhausted all options trying to repair the relationship with Russell and they feel he may have a mental health issue.
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“My father is not well, for years, he needs help and won’t accept that he refuses to acknowledge he is not himself,” she wrote in a post on Instagram. “He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, send a man to my sisters apt at 2am to scare her.”
She continued: “He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say ‘oh Russell everything is fine.’ Well it’s not fine. If I ‘never get a fashion job again’ like he threatens, I’ll be a lawyer I guess and work in criminal justice. Sure I love my job but if he takes it away from me I won’t die. You don’t threaten my sister and grandma and mother and say ‘who’s gonna believe you I’m Russell Simmons nobody thinks I’m crazy’ well he is.”
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Russell Simmons has kept a relatively low profile as of late since sexual assault accusations levied against him came to light in 2020.
The music mogul’s sexual assault accuser Drew Dixon shared her story on the controversial HBO Max documentary On The Record, along with a handful of other women with similar accusations against him.
Simmons has denied the allegations and reportedly provided Oprah Winfrey with over two dozen people who could corroborate his story of innocence as she worked on the documentary — although she later pulled out before the film aired.
“I have constantly taken ownership of having been a massively unconscious ‘playboy’ or by today’s more accurate discrimination, a womanizer,” he told DX. “But I have never been violent or done anything that could be called illegal to any woman.”
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For Winfrey’s part, she denied her decision to step back from the film was because of pressure from Simmons. During an interview with CBS This Morning in January, the talk show host mogul said: “This is not a victory for Russell. I unequivocally say that I did not pull out because of Russell. This is not a victory lap for him. I cannot be silenced by a Russell Simmons after all I’ve been through.”
