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Russell Simmons Owes $3 Million to Three Women, Including a Sexual Assault Accuser, After Failing to Pay Settlement
Russell Simmons owes $3 million to three different women after failing to pay settlements.
Three confessions of judgment were filed Wednesday in New York County Supreme Court on behalf of journalist Sil Lai Abrams, Sherri Abernathy and Wendy Carolina Franco. Over nearly a decade, more than 20 women have accused Simmons of sexual assault, as recently as this past February when a Jane Doe who once worked for Def Jam said that he raped her in the late ‘90s. Two days after the suit, another former Def Jam executive named Drew Dixon sued him for defamation after she claimed he sexually assaulted her and he subsequently branded her a “liar.”
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