Out of a Jam. Russell Simmons is forced out his own company. |
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It forced him to be ousted from the companies he founded.
Russell Simmons was accused of forciable rape by Jenny Lumet, a writer for The Hollywood Reporter. It comes a week after Simmons was accused of rape of then teenage model, Keri Claussen Khalighi.
He will leave his sub companies All Def Digital, Def Pictures and his yoga company Tantris.
HBO is still airing his Def Comedy Jam series but will remove his namesake from it..
Entertainer Jenny Lument said Simmons raped her when she was young. |
From his early days as a music manager, Simmons had a keen marketing mind and business savvy that helped him identify new groups to target with his ventures, be it fashion or film, according to Stacy Gueraseva, who also was previously editor in chief of OneWorld, a now-defunct magazine the mogul co-founded.
The end of a legacy. The accuser claims that he forced her into a sexual relationship.
Lumet — daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of jazz legend Lena Horne — wrote that she first met Simmons in 1987 and would see him “out and about” in New York. She said that he pursued a relationship with her, advances she rebuffed. Lumet, whose screenwriting credits include “Rachel Getting Married” and “The Mummy,” alleged that her run-in with Simmons occurred after he offered to give her a ride home during a night out in New York. She wrote that he instead took her to his residence, ignoring her protests. Once there, she said, he forced her to have sex with him.
We are starting to believe the women.
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