Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons says filmmakers of a documentary detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him “suppressed evidence” that refuted the accusers claims, according to a new $20 million defamation lawsuit filed against HBO and the film’s creators. Simmons says that the 2020 film “On the Record,” a documentary about women accusing the Def Jam records co-founder … Read more
A former music video producer has sued Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons, 66, alleging that he raped her while she working for the label in the 1990s. In a lawsuit filed in New York on Tuesday and obtained by The Post, the woman, who identifies herself as Jane Doe, claims that she went over to Simmons’ … Read more
Kimora Lee Simmons’ beef with ex-husband Russell Simmons is still simmering. The supermodel and Baby Phat ceo – who sat front row at Phillip Lim’s Fashion Week show along with Tinashe, Awkwafina, P.J. Tucker, Teyana Taylor and Karen Pittman – told The Post’s Alexa team that she hasn’t “talked to him and won’t talk to him.” … Read more
There’s nobody better to speak with ahead of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary than the world-renowned Kid Capri. Of course, the stellar DJ proudly hails from hip-hop’s birthplace — a spot that we know locally as the Boogie Down Bronx. He has been an instrumental force in music since the late 1980s, making smash hits for such … Read more
Cancer nature king Henry David Thoreau writes, “We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.” And imbrute we do, my dudes. In the age and anonymity of the internet, … Read more