Russell Simmons Accused Of Rape By Multiple Women
Russell Simmons was accused of harassment, but now he’s being accused of rape by four additional women — including an executive at his Def Jame record label, a music journalist, and a singer he managed, according to the New York Times.
As reported by Page Six, Def Jam exec Drew Dixon said she was forced to sit on Simmons’ lap during meetings and that he exposed himself to her “regularly.” Dixon said she was raped by Simmons in his downtown office and she quit the label soon after. Journalist Toni Sallie said she briefly dated Simmons in 1987. He later lured her to his Manhattan apartment where he “pushed me on the bed” and raped her in the fall of 1988, she said.
The pop singer Tina Baker said Simmons once pinned her to a bed and raped her in the early ’90s, when he was her manager.
Sherri Hines, of an 1980’s all-female hip-hop group, said that Simmons raped her in his office around 1983 when she was 17 or 18 years old. “The next thing I knew, he was pinning me down and I was trying to fight him and he had his way,” she told The Times. “I left crying.”