Russell Simmons has seemingly tried to increase an olive department to his daughter Ming amid their household feud.
Taking to Instagram on Monday (August 14), the previous music mogul shared what commenters are calling an outdated video of himself and Ming in happier instances.
“When Occasions are robust smile and breathe hold your head up yogis,” he captioned the clip. “Gods obtained you once more like he had u final time.”
You’ll be able to view the put up under.
The Def Jam co-founder had an enormous on-line blowout together with his daughters and ex-wife Kimora Lee on Father’s Day in June. After he took situation together with his eldest daughter Ming wishing Kimora a Completely happy Father’s Day on Instagram, a household firestorm ensued.
Simmons took to his story with a not-so-subtle message, posting a meme that learn: “Cease telling fathers they need to have fought tougher to see their kids and begin asking moms why he needed to battle in any respect.”
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The next day, Kimora took to Instagram Stay to air her ex-husband out. Amongst different issues, the Child Phat mogul stated she’s had Simmons blocked for a while now, but he nonetheless posts on social media as in the event that they’re tight. Their youngest daughter Aoki then joined in, sharing not-so-nice messages from her father and even a muted video the place he seemed to be manically raging at her on FaceTime.
In line with Aoki, she and her household have exhausted all choices making an attempt to restore the connection with the music mogul and so they really feel he might have a psychological well being situation.
“My father isn’t properly, for years, he wants assist and received’t settle for that he refuses to acknowledge he isn’t himself,” she wrote in a put up on Instagram. “He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the midst of the evening ill, ship a person to my sisters apt at 2am to scare her.”
She continued: “He lashes out at ANYONE who doesn’t say ‘oh Russell every thing is okay.’ Effectively it’s not advantageous. If I ‘by no means get a trend job once more’ like he threatens, I’ll be a lawyer I suppose and work in legal justice. Certain I really like my job but when he takes it away from me I received’t die. You don’t threaten my sister and grandma and mom and say ‘who’s gonna consider you I’m Russell Simmons no person thinks I’m loopy’ properly he’s.”
Russell Simmons has stored a comparatively low profile since sexual assault accusations levied towards him got here to mild in 2020.
The music mogul’s sexual assault accuser Drew Dixon shared her story on the controversial HBO Max documentary On The File, together with a handful of different ladies with related accusations towards him.
Simmons has denied the allegations and reportedly offered Oprah Winfrey with over two dozen individuals who might corroborate his story of innocence as she labored on the documentary — though she later pulled out earlier than the movie aired.
