Russell Simmons Is Now Also Caught Up On Rape And Child Molestation Accusations

Busta Carmichael

http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-brett-ratner-russell-simmons-20171119-htmlstory.html

Keri Claussen Khalighi was a 17-year-old fashion model from a farka when she met Brett Ratner and Russell Simmons at a casting call.

Ratner was an up-and-coming music video director and a protege of Simmons, the Def Jam Recordings mogul. They took Khalighi to dinner one night in 1991 at Mr. Chow in New York, and then back to Simmons’ apartment to show her a music video they’d been working on.

Quickly, Simmons began making aggressive sexual advances, yanking off her clothes, Khalighi said.

“I looked over at Brett and said ‘help me’ and I'll never forget the look on his face,” she recalled. “In that moment, the realization fell on me that they were in it together.”

Khalighi said that Simmons, who was then about twice her age, tried to force her to have intercourse. “I fought it wildly,” she said. He eventually relented and coerced her to perform oral sex, she alleged. “I guess I just acquiesced.”

Ratner, meanwhile, “just sat there and watched,” she said.

Feeling “disgusting,” Khalighi said she went to take a shower. Minutes later, she alleged, Simmons walked up behind her in the shower and briefly penetrated her without her consent. She said she jerked away, then he left. “It hurt so much.”

It's over

playmaker88

Busta Carmichael

Didnt he smash kimora when she was like 15 and he was 35? Atleast he was grooming her.

If tyga is a pedo then so is russ. Dude stayed having teens who was 20 years younger

Stew

DOPEdweebz

Not a joking matter at all.

Brian B.

Chad been told yall bout Russell

achewon87

Showbiz full of sexual assaulting weirdos...

Absolute power corrupts absolutely...

KamPushMe

His response
He said it was consensual, though why he still risk it with a minor. He could be right, but in the eyes of the public he’s done.

Soooo

Valentinez A. Kaiser

In a statement, Simmons, 60, strongly disputed her account. “Everything that occurred between Keri and me occurred with her full consent and participation,” he said. Much of the two days and one night he spent with her, he said, was with other people, or in public. Ratner had “no recollection” of Khalighi asking him for help and denied witnessing her “protest,” his attorney Martin Singer said.

Ratner has also disputed the accounts of four other women who accused him of sexual misconduct in this story and a previous report by The Times that included the claims of six others, among them actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge.

Since that Nov. 1 report, which detailed allegations of harassment, groping and forced oral sex, additional women contacted The Times about Ratner, who has directed, produced or financed successful films including “Rush Hour,” “The Revenant” and “Horrible Bosses.”

In several of the accounts, the women said that Ratner, 48, surrounded himself with powerful friends, including Simmons and filmmaker James Toback, who, while sharing Ratner’s playboy lifestyle, have also been accused of engaging in sexual misconduct. Those friendships, some women said, enabled inappropriate behavior within the group, sometimes by active participation and in other cases by simply providing venues for incidents to take place.

These men and other older, controversial Hollywood friends — including producer Robert Evans and filmmaker Roman Polanski — have served as father figures to Ratner, who had a distant relationship with his late dad. Evans, the former Paramount Pictures production chief who was convicted of trafficking cocaine, explained his relationship with Ratner in a 2007 Vanity Fair story: “I was his Hollywood father. I don't know whether I should be proud of that or not."

Simmons, who co-founded Def Jam, has often described how Ratner first curried favor by furnishing him with models after they met in 1987. Then an undergraduate studying film at New York University, Ratner seemed to know where the models lived in Manhattan, Simmons has said.

“He was willing to do anything to be of use,” Simmons wrote in his book “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success,” published in 2007. “After he hung around a bit and figured out that I liked models, then he made it his business to take me to every model’s apartment he could find.”

Ratner, who has said his father abused drugs and became homeless, found in Simmons a willing surrogate. "He's my son, all right," Simmons told Vanity Fair.

Ratner’s introduction to a 2005 book about the rise of Def Jam acknowledged that their relationship was “initially based on our mutual admiration for beautiful women.”

The men would go clubbing in Simmons’ Cadillac limo, partying all night and into the next day. At the time, Simmons was a power player in New York who helped turn hip-hop into a mainstream business and cultural force with the release of records by Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J. Simmons also has founded clothing labels including Phat Farm — once a staple of the hip-hop scene — and created HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam,” which has launched the careers of many black stand-ups.

Admiration — and success — were not the only things Ratner and Simmons allegedly shared. In a 2005 Playboy article about Simmons’ reformed ways, magazine writer Touré described a 1994 incident in which he met Simmons for an interview at a cafe below the music mogul’s apartment. When Ratner showed up a little while later, Simmons disappeared for half an hour without explanation. Touré wrote that he later learned that Simmons "had gone up to his place and had sex with a sumptuous model whom Ratner had just finished with."


In 2004, producer Shelly Clippard, then 29, flew to Prague, Czech Republic, with Ratner and others to tour a production facility that was offering promising tax incentives. She said Ratner traded seats to sit next to her for the transatlantic flight, and began making sexually explicit comments to her, showing her nude photographs of his famous then-girlfriend and graphically describing her body.

Clippard said she was so disturbed by the encounter that upon returning from Europe she shared details of the incident with a friend, who confirmed that conversation with The Times. (Two other women who talked to The Times described being shown nude photos of the same woman by Ratner.)

Singer said Ratner “has no recollection” of the alleged run-in with Clippard and “absolutely denies” showing her photos of his former girlfriend. “No such photos exist,” Singer said.

Now 43, Khalighi said her memories of her encounter with Ratner and Simmons remain vivid — even as she has worked hard to move past the incident.

A year ago, she said, she saw Simmons at the Soho House in West Hollywood, where he approached her, “poured his heart out in a really touching, remorseful apology” for his behavior and offered his telephone number — saying she should call him if she wanted to talk further.

“He knew what he had done; I knew what he had done,” she said. “That's also why it was so vindicating, because it was there, acknowledged.”

That apology, Simmons’ attorney Brad D. Rose said, was in the “context for the embarrassment and upheaval the weekend caused her” related to her “infidelity.” (Khalighi disputes the account.)

They're both guilty and as thick as thieves.

Ratner was showing Serena's nudes smh

SheerExcellence

Not speaking on these allegations in particular, but just generally, it's lame that these rich, powerful dudes need to resort to drugging or strong arming to get laid.

Broddie

Pervy Rush peeped game from all those crazy jews he surrounds himself with.

Busta Carmichael

^^

He looked like this went it went down



Hes definitely guilty

jamalmohammadd

Lol

Broddie

SheerExcellence wrote: »

Not speaking on these allegations in particular, but just generally, it's lame that these rich, powerful dudes need to resort to drugging or strong arming to get laid.

That's because in their demented minds it's a power play.

englishdude

Wondering how long it will be before people come after birdman.

VIBE

https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/932276034388467712

Lefty_

englishdude wrote: »

Wondering how long it will be before people come after birdman.

"Me too"

- @Bcotton5

Beta

I'm throwing away my rush card

KnowReasonForPeace

I guess they dont know how much free pussy is on the IC. Hit they twitter and send them links here.

5 Grand

So basically if you have a one night stand with a chick she can accuse you of rape 20 years later?

After 20 years go by you can't remember the details, the story goes public and the woman doesn't get punished if its a false accusation?

Something's not right.

5th Letter

5 Grand wrote: »

So basically if you have a one night stand with a chick she can accuse you of rape 20 years later?

After 20 years go by you can't remember the details, the story goes public and the woman doesn't get punished if its a false accusation?

Something's not right.

The precedent was set with Bill Cosby.

Busta Carmichael

5 Grand wrote: »

So basically if you have a one night stand with a chick she can accuse you of rape 20 years later?

After 20 years go by you can't remember the details, the story goes public and the woman doesn't get punished if its a false accusation?

Something's not right.

You're throwing me assists here bro

englishdude

Busta Carmichael wrote: »

5 Grand wrote: »

So basically if you have a one night stand with a chick she can accuse you of rape 20 years later?

After 20 years go by you can't remember the details, the story goes public and the woman doesn't get punished if its a false accusation?

Something's not right.

You're throwing me assists here bro

To be fair in @5grand case, even if he accused his rapist after 20 years there would still be evidence.

He could prove he castrated him.

KingFreeman

VIBE wrote: »

https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/932276034388467712

This he bitch waited for Russ name to get hot then threw him under the bus, he had that shit for over 2 weeks and didn't have the heart to pop off. Ol 'girl me too' ass nigga b. Exactly the type of nigga I don't fuck with on any level.

DOPEdweebz

Sadly this becomes a he said she said deal.

Max.

https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/932218746382450688

https://twitter.com/AmyKinLA/status/932218813680152577