Music mogul Russell Simmons is feeling the heat. A new reports claims two women have now come forward with rape allegations against the hip-hop executive.
According to reports, the accusations stem from rape encounters dating back more than 25 years ago.
Special victims squad detectives are preparing cases for the district attorney. “The NYPD has received information regarding allegations involving Russell Simmons in the N.Y.C. area, and our detectives are in the process of reviewing that information,” an NYPD spokeswoman said in a statement. Simmons is currently facing accusations of rape or sexual assault from at least a dozen women. (New York Daily News)
Last month, Simmons reportedly took a lie detector test amid growing rape accusations.
According to Simmons’ attorneys, Michael Sterling and E. Carlos Tanner, Simmons passed with flying colors, and plans to repeat the test for allegations made by 4 other women. They say Russell will release all the results once he’s completed the tests. Russell and his legal team are inviting any of his accusers, including Khalighi, to also take a polygraph. (TMZ)
The same week, Simmons went to social media and promised to fight back against the growing sexual attack claims.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcr6U8AgyNL/
Recently, multiple women stepped up and singled Russell out over sexual misconduct.
Toni Sallie said Russell Simmons raped her in 1988. To this day, she said, “I don’t feel comfortable in a room full of men.” https://t.co/1cFH1oC8xG [corrected typo] pic.twitter.com/oJdgTWnkh3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 13, 2017
“I didn’t sing for almost a year.” —Tina Baker, a performer who said Russell Simmons raped her in his apartment in the early ’90s, when he was her manager https://t.co/1cFH1oC8xG pic.twitter.com/mLEQ8h2qlV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 13, 2017
Drew Dixon left Stanford in 1992 to join the hip-hop revolution. She says Russell Simmons sexually harassed her repeatedly when she was an executive at Def Jam. She is accusing him of raping her in 1995. https://t.co/1cFH1oC8xG pic.twitter.com/34A6NpBWKc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 13, 2017
Drew Dixon cited the lingering criticism of black women like Anita Hill and Desiree Washington as contributing reasons for staying quiet until now. https://t.co/1cFH1oC8xG pic.twitter.com/OMt3pNgvHM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 13, 2017
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