Russell Simmons’ Kids: Everything To Know About His 2 Daughters

Image Credit: Broadimage/Shutterstock Russell Simmons is simply a pioneering grounds executive, known for co-founding the iconic statement Def Jam. He was joined to exemplary Kimora Lee Perkins from 1998 to 2009. The erstwhile mates shares 2 big daughters: Aoki and Ming.

Russell Simmons has been 1 of the biggest names successful hep hop, without being a rapper himself. After opening his vocation arsenic a producer, helium aboriginal teamed up with Rick Rubin to co-found the iconic statement Def Jam Recordings, which has been the location to tons of large artists like Jay Z, the Beastie Boys, DMX, and galore more. He’s besides been a large fig successful the manner world. While he’s had an undeniable interaction connected the past of rap, Russell was accused of intersexual battle and harassment by aggregate women successful 2017 and yet stepped down from his presumption astatine Def Jam. Russell, 65, has denied the allegations.

Russell joined model Kimora Lee, 48, successful December 1998. The brace had 2 daughters Aoki, 20, and Ming, 23, but the brace divided up successful 2006, and their divorcement was finalized a fewer years later. Since the split, Russell has had a strained narration with some his ex-wife and his daughters. Kimora accused him of “threatening” her and the kids arsenic good arsenic being “abusive” successful her Instagram Story connected June 18, 2023, per People. “This antheral has been threatening my kids’ lives. I’m proceeding truthful overmuch much now. We won’t beryllium bullied threatened oregon afraid,” she wrote. “This communicative of attacking the lone caregiver, the lone genitor successful the location with the kids, the mom, AND the kids for one’s ain shortcomings and embarrassments is dead.”

Russell poses for a photograph with his daughters. (Broadimage/Shutterstock)

Kimora hasn’t been the lone 1 to impeach the erstwhile grounds enforcement of acting inappropriately. Aoki shared screenshots of substance exchanges with her dada and said that if she doesn’t respond, he’ll “harass” her fellow oregon assemblage friends. “I’ve had enough,” she wrote successful an Instagram Story. “He’s been atrocious to maine for years and that’s conscionable the truth.”

Find retired much astir Russell’s girl here.

Ming Lee Simmons

Russell and Kimora welcomed their elder girl Ming successful 2000. The older Simmons girl was a pupil astatine New York University, graduating successful 2023. She’s dabbled successful modeling and being a societal media personality, often sharing vlog-style videos connected TikTok and posting gorgeous photos of herself connected Instagram.

Ming has opened up astir however her ma was a large power successful showing her however important hard enactment is successful a 2023 interrogation with Hypebae. “It’s going to dependable cliche, but my ma truly does support maine grounded. She’s ever hammered the worth of a dollar into each of america and she’s done an astonishing occupation of supporting america portion besides doing her champion to marque america alert of our privilege,” she said. “I cognize that I request to enactment hard and beryllium myself to beryllium capable to basal connected my own.”

Amid the play with her dada successful 2023, Ming besides dissed her dada with a Father’s Day Post, wherever she shared a photograph of herself and her mom, fundamentally wishing Kimora a “Happy Father’s Day,” connected her Instagram Story, per TMZ.

Aoki Lee Simmons

Kimora gave commencement to her and Russell’s younger girl Aoki successful 2002. Like her mom, Aoki is besides a model, but she’s besides a graduate of Harvard University, having graduated arsenic portion of the Class of 2023. After graduating, Aoki besides thanked her ma and sisters for supporting her successful an interrogation with People. “I consciousness grateful, arrogant and relieved — successful that order! It’s a surreal feeling to beryllium done with thing that was specified a immense portion of my life. Now, similar each different graduate, I’m connected to the adjacent chapter,” she said. “My mom, my sister, my small brothers backmost astatine home. It took a full tribe, spot me!”

Aside from being a pupil astatine Harvard, Aoki besides made her New York Fashion Week debut portion she was moving connected her degree, per HuffPost. She’s repped by Nomad Management, arsenic her Instagram bio states.

While she’s intelligibly had immoderate difficulties with her dad, arsenic evidenced successful the Father’s Day 2023 posts, she did person benignant words to accidental astir him successful a 2023 HuffPost interview. “I unrecorded with my mom. My dada is similar a amusive uncle. My ma is my mom. That is my person. She’s not letting maine fall, oregon messiness up,” she said.

Weeks aft that interrogation though was the fallout connected her Instagram Stories, wherever she besides shared a video of Russell seeming to outcry astatine her connected a FaceTime call. In different Story, she wrote that immoderate radical adjacent to her dada thought that helium was “mentally sick oregon experiencing thing similar dementia,” and she said that anterior to the argument, she had a bully narration with him. “He was truly the champion dada ever and a large co parent. He and my ma were champion friends. We each defended him against anything, and past helium abruptly turned connected ANYONE who volition fto him lash out,” she said.

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