Kimora Lee Simmons and her daughter with Russell Simmons, Aoki Lee, are blasting the Def Jam co-founder for what they name years of abuse that has change into worse lately.

On Monday, Kimora shared a number of posts and went dwell the place she grew to become emotional and tearfully defined that Simmons has been manipulative and spiteful in the direction of his youngsters and has been allegedly mendacity about what he does for his youngsters.

Kimora married Russell Simmons in December 1998 and divorced in 2009. The 2 share daughters, Aoki Lee, 20, and Ming Lee Simmons, 23. Aoki Lee graduated from Harvard College, whereas Ming graduated from NYU final month.

Ming Lee wished her mom a contented Father’s Day on Sunday, and plainly this set off Russell Simmons, who Kimora and her daughters say has been harassing, threatening them, and being abusive for years.

In a sequence of posts, Kimora referred to as him out for threatening his daughters after the put up by Ming Lee.

“I’m so sorry to have to do that,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “However this man has been threatening my youngsters’ lives. I’m listening to a lot extra now. We gained’t be bullied threatened or afraid….Depart my youngsters alone.”

One other Story mentioned, “This narrative of attacking the one caregiver, the one father or mother within the house with the youngsters, the mother, AND the youngsters for one’s personal shortcomings and embarrassments is useless. Useless. Useless.”

Based on Kimora, Russell is broke, and he or she has been caring for his payments and bills for years.

Based on her, Simmons nonetheless managed to contribute round $500 a month to the woman’s month-to-month bills, however months in the past, whereas the kids had been making ready for his or her remaining exams, he minimize them off financially.

“The breaking level for all of this was over the previous many months when their dad simply type of minimize them off. He was contributing just a little bit of money to their month-to-month school spending, Not a lot, like a few hundred {dollars} perhaps about $500,” Kimora mentioned.

Based on her, Russell has not been in his youngsters’s lives, however he has been pretending on the web that he has cash and has been funding their life-style.

“At some point he simply form of minimize the youngsters off. There was no more cash coming in, no extra allowance. I believe that he did that to double up the bills on me which isn’t any downside, I stepped up and I did it. It was months in the past, simply earlier than commencement,” she mentioned, including that he did it after an interview with Akademiks.

Kimora additionally says that whereas on the present, Russell boasted about being wealthy and having some huge cash as an previous head in hip hop, however Kimora says

“He was saying to the man I’m so wealthy…none of that might be farther from the reality… In the meantime, I’ve been financially carrying this particular person most likely for the final no less than 10 years- myself and my ex-husband. Once more, that is all confirmed with receipts…however I’ve taken care of this particular person to the tune of many many many hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to assist with their payments, their overheads, their corporations that they run into the bottom, their unsuccessful bids, all of their stuff,” she mentioned.

Kimora additionally mentioned that Russell was upset that his daughters went to varsity as a substitute of saving the cash.

Kimora and Russell divorced in 2009, however she says his relationship together with his youngsters started deteriorating lately. She additionally says he has been pretending that she sends him flowers and denies that the kids had been brainwashed.

“I’m simply asking that you just please go away us alone,” she mentioned.

Aoki Lee additionally went on Instagram Stay, the place she mentioned her father “taunts and bullies” them every single day.

Based on her, her father has been threatening her and her sister and has been trying to blackball her within the modeling business.

She referred to as out her father for her conduct in current occasions.

“I used to be responding to a remark saying ‘Oh however he offers you a lot’ He doesn’t and that’s okay. However it’s best to get the complete story earlier than making gentle of this. He’s mentally unwell and has been bullying and abusing my sister, my grandmother who’s sick, he despatched somebody to my sister’s home in the course of the evening to scare her, he referred to as my grandmother IN THE HOSPITAL worsening her coronary heart points, he harasses everybody I do know if I don’t reply and let him yell at me. FOR YEARS. Return and take a look at what I mentioned. It’s not an issue he doesn’t give me any cash, it’s an issue that he wants assist for years and gained’t take it. It’s an issue that he hurts others. And activates everybody he is aware of,” she wrote in feedback on Instagram.

Regardless of Aoki’s rationalization for why she desires nothing to do along with her father and Ming Lee recognizing her mom for taking part in a fatherly function in her life, Russell appeared upset at Kimora, whom he blasted for preserving him from his youngsters.

“Cease telling fathers they need to have fought more durable to see their youngsters & begin asking moms why he needed to combat in any respect,” an Instagram Story learn.

In a put up on Monday afternoon, Simmons wrote, “God is testing you just a little bit, it’s okay,be sturdy, they’re referred to as rising ache as you recognize. We develop by adversity and battle…I really like you guys greater than I really like myself,” he wrote.

Aoki Lee Simmons additionally posted movies she recorded of her father, who she mentioned calls her, her buddies, her boyfriend, and others to “threaten and curse and go loopy.”

It appears that evidently Russell’s and Kimora’s relationship grew to become fraught with issues after he sued her and her ex-husband for allegedly trying to unload virtually 4 million Celcius shares to assist pay bail and authorized charges for her ex-husband Tim Leissner. Leissner was charged with cash laundering in 2018.

In courtroom paperwork, Simmons asserted he owned 50% of the Celcius shares, which Lee went behind his again and used as bail to safe Leissner’s launch. Leissner had pleaded responsible to felony conspiracy to commit cash laundering from Malaysian wealth fund 1MDB, and to keep away from jail; he agreed to pay $44 million.

Kimora’s attorneys, nonetheless, mentioned Russell was trying to extort them and that the shares and dividends of Celcius “Kimora and Leissner invested hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” and that Russell was trying to “use the authorized system to entry funds he’s under no circumstances entitled to, and which his personal authorized workforce confirms Russell didn’t pay for.”

Simmons had additionally introduced a breach of contract declare in opposition to Lee, however the courtroom had dismissed the case discovering that Lee owed Simmons no obligation of care as he had resigned as supervisor of the corporate a yr earlier than. He additionally needed to pay her $100,000 in authorized charges. It’s unclear if the substantive case remains to be ongoing.