RUSSELL Simmons has found himself in a massive family feud, after his daughters and bitter ex-wife Kimora Lee lashed out at him on social media.
It all seems to have started after his eldest daughter posted a cryptic note for Father’s Day.
On Sunday, Ming Lee Simmons, 23, decided to forgo showering her dad with affection, and instead burned him by publicly wishing her mom, Kimora, a happy Father’s Day instead.
That seemed to trigger the Def Jam Records co-founder, who then took a shot at his ex, posting: “Stop telling fathers they should have fought harder to see their children & start asking mothers why he had to fight at all.”
It was enough to subsequently set younger daughter Aoki off who posted a series of personal emotions to her Instagram stories, which Kimora then reposted.
“I’ve had enough,” Aoki, 20, stated in the first post. “I know I may lose jobs or whatever I don’t even know.
“I was always a daddy’s girl. You can see that in any picture. But he’s been awful to me for years, and that’s just the truth.”
Aoki shared a lengthy text exchange between her and her dad, crying out to him that he has caused her too much anxiety in his war with Kimora.
” Dad, I stopped talking to you because you were giving me panic attacks to the point I was placed on emergency medication every time we spoke.
“I cannot have a relationship with you until that stops.
“No one stops me from talking to you, my health does. I have to put that first.”
Aoki accused Russell of constantly yelling and screaming at her over an unspecified legal situation that she insisted she had nothing to do with.
“You were putting so much anger and rage on me every phone call. Cursing and screaming and god know what else. I’m sorry but I cannot be the target of that it’s not fair.”
She submitted a video of her dad wildly ranting into a phone, without any audio.
“Some of us do think he is mentally ill or experiencing something like dementia,” she said in another story. “He really acts like he hates and does not know his children frequently.”
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KIMORA CLAPS BACK
Russell’s ex, Kimora, followed up with several of her own revealing accusations, saying she and her daughters “won’t be bullied, threatened or afraid.”
“No one should live like this. No one’s child,” she captioned a reshare of Aoki’s diatribe. “This is abuse. Not ok. The threats. Not ok. The fear mongering, not ok.”
But Kimora wasn’t finished lashing out, and returned to Instagram demanding Russell leave their kids alone.
“This is how you maneuver with the world and women all around you,” she slammed. “Your threats and lies and intimidation maneuvers and tactics are sad.”
Then she begged him to stop.
“Your own flesh and blood? Enough is enough.”
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Russell for his reaction and response.
On his own Instagram page, his two most recent posts are both photo montages congratulating his daughters on graduating from college.
MARRIAGE TROUBLES
Russell and Kimora married in December 1998 before going through a hostile divorce in January 2009.
But the two had already been separated for years, having announced their split in March 2006.
Kimora cited irreconcilable differences in court documents and asked for legal and physical custody of the pair’s daughters, who were eight and five at the time.
In May, their daughters, Ming and Aoki, both graduated from college during the same month.
Ming graduated from New York University in May 2023.
Aoki, who was accepted into Harvard University at just 16 years old, graduated from the Ivy League school in May 2023.
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