Russell Simmons prolonged an olive department to his ex-wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, over the weekend.
On Sunday (Might 4), Kimora’s fiftieth birthday, the Def Jam Recordings co-founder penned a heartfelt message for her on Instagram, an indication he’s making an attempt put their contentious previous to relaxation and transfer into a brand new part.
“Let me share a prayer in your 50 birthday,” he wrote. “I’m praying to your peace and happiness, additionally for the decision of all excellent sources of ache and battle. I’m a believer that hate hurts the hater.. And extra importantly I sincerely stand in acceptance and forgiveness with a honest need to be in union with all residing members of my household, and in-doing so in union with our mixed ancestors.
“Let’s be open to placing our youngsters, godchildren and finally our happiness within the forefront of any worldly targets or needs. I’ll love u till dying for all you’ve given me. Hold being the nice instance of motherhood that you just at all times have been. Ps 50 by no means seemed so good. God blessed u with longevity (asian and black genes) and the flexibility to proceed to evolve. GOOD LUCK Now comes the nice half.”
Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee, who share two daughters, have been married from 1998 to 2009. Since their divorce, they’ve had a rollercoaster relationship. Kimora was in Russell’s nook when he was accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls starting in 2017, however their relationship quickly began to deteriorate.
In 2021, Russell sued Kimora, accusing her and estranged husband Tim Leissner of breach of contract, fraudulent concealment and breach of confidential relations/constructive fraud, amongst different costs. He alleged that he, Kimora and Leissner entered a enterprise association in 2016, when the couple joined his funding firm, Nu Horizons.
Throughout their time working for Nu Horizons, the group made “appreciable investments” within the “tens of tens of millions of {dollars}” vary to power health drink model Celsius Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded firm.
The swimsuit continues to say that when Leissner was arrested on separate cash laundering costs in 2017, he and Lee “conspired” to make use of their stake in Celsius to “fraudulently switch” virtually 4 million Celsius shares to themselves. Leissner pleaded responsible to legal conspiracy to commit cash laundering for the theft of billions of {dollars} from Malaysian wealth fund 1MDB in 2018.
With a view to keep away from jail time, he agreed to forfeit almost $44 million. Russell claimed he didn’t discover out in regards to the fraud till July 2019. Kimora’s attorneys stated in a press release to E! Information on the time, “We are going to confront his baseless claims… Our staff is actively working to place a agency finish to his harassment.”
A decide has scheduled the trial for January 2, 2026, in Los Angeles Superior Court docket.
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