MANHATTAN, NY — Music mogul Russell Simmons said Thursday he is
stepping down from his companies after screenwriter Jenny Lumet accused
him of sexual assaulting her more than 25 years ago, the second
allegation made against him in as many weeks. Lumet, the daughter of
filmmaker Sidney Lumet, described the encounter in excruciating detail
in a letter published earlier Thursday.
In the letter to The Hollywood Reporter,
Lumet said Simmons offered her a ride home from a Manhattan restaurant
in his chauffeured car in 1991, but ordered the driver to his New York
apartment instead of her home. Once there, Lumet alleged, Simmons
forcefully had sex with her.
"It was dark, but not pitch dark.
You closed the door," Lumet wrote of her experience in his apartment.
"At that point, I simply did what I was told. There was penetration. At
one point you were only semi-erect and appeared frustrated. Angry? I
remember being afraid that you would deem that my fault and become
violent. I did not know if you were angry, but I was afraid that you
were."
Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Recordings and the
clothing line Phat Farm, was also accused in a Nov. 19 Los Angeles Times
article of forcing model Keri Claussen to perform oral sex on him in
1991.
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Source: Patch.com (via The Empire Report)
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