Russell Simmons Denies Sexual Assault Allegations “I Took 9 Lie Detector Tests”,  Accuser Reacts: I’m Sickened!

Russell Simmons Denies Sexual Assault Allegations “I Took 9 Lie Detector Tests”,  Accuser Reacts: I’m Sickened!

Russell Simmons is speaking out about the ongoing sexual assault claims against him.

The more than a dozen allegations have been going strong since November 2017, and he started denying them just months later.

He said in a statement shortly after,

I vehemently deny all the allegations made against me. They have shocked me to my core as I have never been abusive or violent in any way in my relations with women. I am blessed to have shared extraordinary relationships, whether through work or love, with many great women and I have enormous respect for the women’s movement worldwide and their struggle for respect, dignity, equality, and power. I am devastated by any reason I may have given to anyone to say or think of me in the ways that are currently being described…

I have accepted that I can and should get dirt on my sleeves if it means witnessing the birth of a new consciousness about women. What I cannot accept is responsibility for what I have not done. The current allegations range from the patently untrue to the frivolous and hurtful….

Since then, a documentary featuring his accusers, On The Record, has been released, and Russell Simmons has remained vocal about insisting he didn’t commit the crimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgVmjX86bQ

Most recently, Russell Simmons spoke out about the allegations during an interview with The Breakfast Club. He had this to say:

I can never say that someone doesn’t feel victimized. Thirty years ago… These stories are 35-40 years old, I can never say someone doesn’t feel victimized. I can tell you is that I don’t feel I victimized them.

He also pointed out that handful of lie detector tests he underwent in an effort to prove his case.

And how can I say that? I took nine separate 3-hour lie detector tests By two separate teachers. So I just want to share that. They are available to you. I just wanted to say that. And I don’t know what else to say except that I feel terrible.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQn7eTltdV/

Russell continued to reference one accuser’s report, writer Jenny Lumet, and how reading that affected him:

One of the things that happened during the investigation that Oprah [Winfrey] did. I told her I read Jenny Lumet’s report and I believed her. It broke my heart when I read it, I had never heard it. Thirty years later, I read it, I believed her. She said she got in the car and the door locked. My first instinct was ‘shi*t car doors lock in 1990. Loud. Cadillacs.’ So it was a misunderstanding as far as I can tell because I believed her but I also passed nine tests because I believe me.

He added,

I feel terrible about the women that felt victimized. I am not a monster or a victimizer.

One of his alleged victims, Sil Lai Abrams, condemned his interview on Twitter.

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By:@a.girlwhowrites