PR Powerhouse Kelly Cutrone Says Russell Simmons Tried To Rape Her
Kelly Cutrone, renowned fashion publicist and former judge on America’s Next Top Model, has come out to say that Russell Simmons tried to rape her. The confession comes after Russell attempted to start a #NotMe hashtag to deny the sexual assault accusations against him.
“The #NotMe thing? I’m going to do a #YeahYou. F–k you,” she wrote on social media. Russell stepped down from his companies after up to 12 women accused him of sexual misconduct.
Kelly told Page Six that in 1991, she bumped into Simmons invited her to his apartment, and when she declined, the mogul said he needed to drop in at a friend’s house. Cutrone says she agreed to go, but she believes he led her to his own apartment instead.
“He pushed me into his apartment and then he threw me down on the floor and literally tried to grab … take my clothes off of me,” Kelly said, “And I started kicking him really, really hard, screaming, telling him to get the f–k off of me. And that I would have him killed if he ever f–king laid a hand on me.”
She ran out of the apartment. “[Simmons] was just really shaken up and I f–king split. I remember running out the door and getting a cab and all I remember was that I got in a cab and I remember a feeling — which was so crazy — of, ‘Oh my god. Somebody just tried to rape me. What do I do?’ And then the energy of going to the police and pressing charges against him was overwhelming to me.”
She added, “Then what would happen afterward — and this would happen years afterward — I’d be at a table and Russell f–king Simmons would come up to the table and then people would be like, ‘Kelly, do you know Russell?,’ and I’d be like, ‘Yes, I know Russell — he tried to rape me.’”
“All these guys [who have been accused of rape, including Simmons and Harvey Weinstein] have been doing is, like, go, like, ‘Hey, I’m really, really sorry and I’m going to step away from my business,’” said Cutrone, “But you know what, a lot of these women have to go to work everyday because they have to pay bills and they haven’t made $100 million.” Of Simmons — an avid yogi — she added, “I hope he chokes on his om pendant.”
Read more at Page Six.