At some point, denial-ready Russell Simmons has to help us understand how there are SO MANY allegations of rape and sexual misconduct against him. Is it really all one big conspiracy??
Previously accused of rape — and later accused of NINE MORE instances of sexual assault and misconduct — Simmons has today once again been accused of raping yet another woman… This time Alexia Norton Jones, back in November of 1990.
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Jones shared her story with Variety today, in which she goes into great detail about her time out on a date with Russell, and how he allegedly ended the night by inviting her up to his apartment and raping her.
Then 31-year-old aspiring model and actress, Jones — the granddaughter of famed late book publisher W.W. Norton — didn’t file a police report until almost three decades later, when she detailed the incident last year to New York City authorities.
Her case, as you might expect, falls outside of the statute of limitations in New York for felonies, but Jones still wanted to stand by the other women who have repeatedly come forward with allegations against Simmons, and so she filed her police report anyways — and, now, she’s telling the world.
She details her date with Russell on that allegedly fateful 1990 November night (below):
“So we go out in November 1990. This was our first date. There was no confusion about that. And I liked him. He wasn’t into this fitness thing back then. He was a little overweight. But I’m not attracted to skinny guys anyway, and looks aren’t the most important thing on a guy for me.
At the end of the evening, he wanted to show me his new apartment, which he said he’d bought from a well-known pop star. It’s weird what I can still recall from that night. I remember I was wearing these Diego Della Valle shoes that were new. I remember I was wearing a black stretchy dress that had a collar. I remember he had a terrific car with a driver. I remember going over to his place.
Within a few minutes, he got what he thought was amorous. What was shocking to me was that it wasn’t. It was one of these things, where he had so many hands on me. But he only has two hands. It began with us kissing. There was something about kissing him, his heart was racing. It seemed out of pace, like he wasn’t relaxed. My mind went to, “Is he on something?” I also thought, “How could I be such an idiot?” Here I am, I’m trusting him. I had been a survivor of sexual abuse as a young teenager.
I didn’t want to go further. It was such a fast attack. It was literally an attack. Because he was overweight, I remember thinking it was like being attacked by a flabby walrus. I remember being pushed up against a wall. He pulled my dress up. I must have said no seven to 10 times, and then I acquiesced. It was very fast. I would say it happened in less than 10 minutes.”
Wow…
The whole piece is worth a read in full… you can do so by clicking HERE.
[Image via WENN.]
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