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Russell Simmons Rape Accuser Revives Lawsuit: ‘He Caused Pain’
Former Def Jam executive revives rape lawsuit against Russell Simmons after it was dismissed from federal court because he's Bali resident
The former Def Jam executive who claims Russell Simmons pinned her down and raped her inside his Manhattan apartment in the mid-1990s has revived her lawsuit against the music mogul after it was derailed by a federal judge last month. “Russell Simmons has a consistent pattern of doing anything and everything to dodge accountability, like failing to make agreed settlement payments to women and fleeing to Bali to try to sidestep legal action in the United States,” Davis tells Rolling Stone. With her re-filed lawsuit, Jane Doe alleges she was working for Simmons as the head of Def Jam’s film and video production department in the mid 1990s when she visited his apartment one night to deliver a rough cut of a project.
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