Rap mogul Russell Simmons hit with another rape suit
Los Angeles: Hip- hop magnate Russell Simmons was slapped Friday with a $ 10- million rape lawsuit filed by a woman in L o s Ange l e s , the latest in a string of a c c u s a - t i o n s a g a i n s t him ranging from harassment to rape. The unidentified woman said in the complaint filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court that the mogul raped her in a hotel after the two met at concert and then went to a club. At least nine women have now come forward with misconduct allegations against the 60- year- old Simmons.
In January, aspiring filmmaker Jennifer Jarosik sued him for alleged rape, seeking $ 5 million as she called for a reckoning in the hiphop industry on the mistreatment of women.
In light of the most recent suit, Simmons released a statement saying “I vehemently deny all the allegations made against me.”
“They have shocked me to my core as I have never been abusive or violent in any way in my relations with women,” he said in the statement, noting that he had submitted to and passed several lie detector tests New York: Jann Wenner feels the # MeToo movement shows a “real absence of due process.”
In an interview with the Rolling Stone publisher said he feels that mere accusations of s e x u a l impropriety are threate n i n g c a r e e r s , many times without corroboration, with people losing their jobs over “some of the most harmless ( expletive) things.”
“Honestly, I do believe it’s a bit of a witch hunt,” Wenner said in a recent interview at his office in New York. “It’s difficult to get due process because there’s no real place to adjudicate it except in court, which takes forever.” concerning such allegations. In the latest complaint, the woman said Simmons lured her into his hotel room, threatened her, and then “threw her on the bed and raped her.” She first met him at a concert she had attended with her son, and that Simmons had invited her to an after- party.