Russell Simmons' daughter and ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons name him out for 'abusive' actions, 'threats,' and 'lies'
- Kimora Lee Simmons and Aoki Lee Simmons alleged on Instagram that Russell Simmons had been “abusive.”
- The pair shared assorted textual content screenshots and statements on social media concerning Simmons.
- Simmons, per Individuals, appeared to accuse Kimora of not letting him see his youngsters.
Russell Simmons’ daughter Aoki Lee Simmons and ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons known as him out on Instagram on Monday for “abusive” habits, with Kimora saying that “sufficient was sufficient” when it got here to going after their household.
In an Instagram story put up Monday, Kimora mentioned that Simmons had been “threatening my youngsters lives.” In a subsequent put up, she informed Simmons to keep away from their youngsters.
“This narrative of attacking the one caregiver, the one father or mother within the house with the children, the mother, AND the children for one’s personal shortcomings and embarrassments is lifeless. Lifeless. Lifeless,” Kimora wrote in an Instagram story put up Monday.
Kimora and Simmons married in 1998 and share two daughters: Ming Lee Simmons, 23, and Aoki, 20. They introduced their cut up in 2006, and finalized their divorce in 2009.
On Monday, Individuals reported that Simmons appeared to reference his ex-wife in an Instagram story put up.
“Cease telling fathers that they need to have fought tougher to see their youngsters & begin asking moms why he needed to struggle in any respect,” the put up mentioned, per Individuals.
In separate Instagram posts on her personal account, Simmons and Kimora’s daughter Aoki, 20, shared screenshots that look like textual content conversations together with her father, labeled underneath the contact identify “Daddy.” In a single textual content that seems to have been despatched by Simmons, he accuses Kimora of getting “stolen my cash and the love of my youngsters,” to which Aoki tells him, “Do not ever say that once more.”
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In a prolonged textual content that Aoki posted to her Instagram story, she says that Simmons’ actions “have been giving me panic assaults to the purpose I used to be positioned on emergency medicine each time we spoke.” Later within the textual content, she tells Simmons that he would “yell and scream” at her “a few authorized scenario that I can not even reply to as a result of I AM NOT INVOLVED.”
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In an on-screen caption on one other Instagram story put up, Aoki mentioned that Simmons would contact her pals or boyfriend when she blocked him from contacting her. In a separate put up, she wrote that “a few of us” believed that Simmons was “mentally ailing or experiencing one thing like dementia,” including that he had been a terrific father and co-parent however “abruptly turned.”
In subsequent Instagram story posts on Monday, Kimora defended her daughters, accusing Simmons of telling Aoki and her older sister, Ming, that they might “by no means work once more” and that he would “spoil” Aoki.
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“Your threats and lies and intimidation manouvers and techniques are unhappy,” Kimora wrote in an Instagram story put up. “Cease it please. Your personal flesh and blood? Sufficient is sufficient.”
A number of hours after Kimora’s Instagram story posts, Simmons uploaded a photograph of Aoki and Ming from the relaunch marketing campaign for Kimora’s model Child Phat to Instagram.
“DEEPLY sorry for being annoyed and yelling,” he wrote within the caption. “however know this . . . there are not any situations . . . for positive i like you guys greater than i like myself.”
Representatives for Kimora Lee Simmons declined to touch upon this story. Reps for Simmons didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.