Russell Simmons Really Fled to Bali After #MeToo Allegations

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you talk like you would do something about it
If you not about to pull up, I don't want to hear your tough talk. You're a stay at home father that gets penetrated by his wife. Giving you them hands would be easy work.
 

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:jbhmm:or is he??
 

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I didn't say shyt about pulling up, you just need to prove your manhood by beating up on someone you already believe is inferior to you based on hearsay

so you playing yoself

unlike me, my woman is a pro at that. especially when she gets her nails done :noah:

If you not about to pull up, I don't want to hear your tough talk. You're a stay at home father that gets penetrated by his wife. Giving you them hands would be easy work.
 

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I didn't say shyt about pulling up, you just need to prove your manhood by beating up on someone you already believe is inferior to you based on hearsay

so you playing yoself

unlike me, my woman is a pro at that. especially when she gets her nails done :noah:
:scust:I would only give you them hands if you attacked me. There is no glory in beating up a fakkit:manny:
 

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Former record executive Russell Simmons continues to deny allegations from 2017, in which at least a dozen women claimed he raped or sexually assaulted them over the course of several decades.

The Def Jam Recordings co-founder – who stepped down from his various businesses and philanthropies following the accusations – sat down for a wide-ranging interview on "In Depth with Graham Bensinger."



Several clips released Wednesday show that during their conversation, which at times bordered on adversarial, the 66-year-old discussed the 2017 allegations fueled by the Me Too movement, his career in the music industry and his relationship with ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons and their two children. Simmons now mainly resides in Bali, Indonesia.

"I've never been violent to anybody," Simmons said. "Of course I've been insensitive, but certainly never been forceful in any of my relationships, all of which I've had have been consensual




Russell Simmons calls Me Too 'a great movement'
The interview with Bensinger, which was filmed in Bali, Indonesia, in September and will broadcast in syndication in full this weekend, marks Simmons not having "spoken to anyone for five years."

"It's ruined my life," he said of the 2017 accusations. "It's ruined my relationships with everything. All my five charities have gone down."



Simmons revealed he's "slept with" "thousands" of people, and over the years "I was in so many compromising situations that people can have a recollection from 30 or 40 years ago, and it can be different from my recollection."

He claims to have undergone "nine lie detector tests," in which he attested to having "never done this to anyone," including answering to each individual woman's accusations. Simmons has previously mentioned in statements, which were issued in response to accusations made in 2017 and 2018, that unspecified lie-detector tests have proven his innocence


Simmons did not specify which organization he worked with but has previously mentioned the California Association of Polygraph Examiners. USA TODAY has reached out to the association for comment.

The music mogul said the number of sexual partners he's had was in part due to the culture at the time. "I think that the culture and the climate was different, and the way people interacted was different. I think to judge 40 years ago as if it was today, we get in trouble," Simmons told Bensinger. "We have to accept where we were and move on and be somewhere else in the future if we don't like where we were. And I think we're doing that now. And I think that's the good that comes with Me Too."


"It's a great movement," he added. "It's done a lot of great work for women. It sensitized men in ways they were not sensitized, and for that I'm grateful."

That said, Simmons also argued that there's a gray area "in the real world": "Being pushy is different from pushing someone. It's very gray," he said


Russell Simmons' accusers stand by their claims
"In Depth with Graham Bensinger" reached out to Simmons' named accusers, according to the episode, and received responses from four of the women: Drew Dixon, Sheri Sher, Sil Lai Abrams and Jenny Lumet. All four said in written statements that they stood by their claims


Lumet, a screenwriter, wrote in a guest column published by The Hollywood Reporter that the Def Jam co-founder allegedly forced her to have sex in 1991. Abrams, a former Def Jam assistant who allegedly had a prior sexual relationship with Simmons, told THR that Russell Simmons raped her in 1994, an experience she had previously detailed in a 2007 book without using real names.

Sher, a founding member of the first all-female hip-hop group Mercedes Ladies, came forward in a Los Angeles Times exposé alleging Simmons raped her in his office around 1983 but did not come forward due to the fear of backlash from the rap community


In his sit-down with Bensinger, Simmons said he hasn't been sued in the one-year window during which New York's Adult Survivors Act allowed sexual abuse survivors the opportunity to file claims that would otherwise be barred by time limits. According to the New York State Courts e-filing website, no lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct have been filed against Simmons in the past year.


Simmons, in a separate clip, reflected on his relationship with his two children, Ming Lee Simmons, 23, and Aoki Lee Simmons, 21, amid his financial legal battles with their mother. Earlier this year, Aoki and Kimora Lee Simmons took to social media to accuse Russell Simmons of abusive behavior.
 

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Russell Simmons Sued for Alleged Rape of Def Jam Producer in ’90s​

Gene MaddausFeb 13, 2024 10:45am PT
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 03: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Russell Simmons attends MusiCares Persons of the Year Honoring Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 03, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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A former music video producer sued Russell Simmons on Tuesday, alleging that he raped her when she worked for Def Jam Recordings in the late 1990s.

The woman, identified in the complaint as Jane Doe, alleges that she went to Simmons’ Manhattan apartment to get his approval for a rough cut of a video. While there, she alleges that he made a “wrestling move,” pinned her down on his bed, and proceeded to rape her.

“Ms. Doe rejected his advance and told him to ‘get off’ and ‘stop’ several times,” the lawsuit states. “She told him she was ‘serious’ and she ‘meant it.’ But Ms. Doe was forcefully pinned, could not move under his weight and Mr. Simmons would not listen to her.”

Simmons was one of many powerful men accused of sexual assault in 2017. After multiple women came forward with allegations against him, he was forced to step down from his roles at Def Jam and at his yoga lifestyle brand. A 2020 documentary, “On the Record,” detailed the allegations of several accusers.

According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe saw a familiar pattern.

“When Ms. Doe learned about the accounts of the other survivors, she was struck by how similar they were to her own horrible experience at the hands of Mr. Simmons,” the complaint states.

The suit alleges that leading up to the assault, Simmons would also sexually harass the plaintiff in her office at work, shutting the door behind him, leaning over her and making sexual innuendos.

The plaintiff’s attorneys, Kenya Davis and Sigrid McCawley, said Tuesday that their client’s career was on the upswing before the assault.

“She was proud of her contributions to the burgeoning musical genre of hip hop, but her hard work and her career in music was disrupted and derailed by Mr. Simmons, a rich and powerful celebrity whose wealth and influence allowed his abusive behavior to go unchallenged for decades,” they said. “Now a successful writer and producer in the entertainment industry, Jane Doe’s traumatic experiences with Simmons echo those of so many other women who he has preyed upon for decades.”

The suit alleges that she was “forever changed” by the assault, that she suffered from dissociation, depression and anxiety, and that she turned in her notice at Def Jam shortly afterward.

She also suffered panic attacks and developed an eating disorder, and had difficulty dealing with heightened emotions in work settings. She left three jobs at production companies over a two-year period, according to the complaint.

In March 2023, she went to a yoga class and inadvertently found herself next to Simmons. According to the suit, she was startled when he said her name, and she asked if it was OK to practice next to him. He responded: “Of course. What, do you think I’m gonna try and fukk you?” the lawsuit states.

“Ms. Doe was horrified,” the complaint continues. “She realized not only was he unapologetic towards her personally, he did not appreciate that the assault was wrong.”

The lawsuit was filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act and the New York City Gender Motivated Violence Act, both of which adopted temporary “lookback windows” to revive suits that otherwise would be outside the statute of limitations.

Jennifer Jarosik filed a rape lawsuit against Simmons in federal court in January 2018. That complaint was dropped a few months later. Another accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, sued Simmons in state court in Los Angeles in March 2018. A judge threw that case out in 2020 because the allegation was barred by the state of limitations.

Simmons has apologized for being “thoughtless and insensitive,” but has said he was never violent. In a podcast interview last year, Simmons acknowledged being in “compromising situations,” but said he had taken and passed nine lie detector tests dealing with the allegations of violent conduct.
 

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They see that Vince McMahon is trending so now Russell supposedly pulled a "wrestling move"?

This is why it's so important to try to take care of your money and make it work for you.

I hope that he never comes back to the USA to let them lock him up.
 
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