Russell Simmons Accuser Breaks Silence In ‘On The Record’: “Keeping This Secret…Doesn’t Serve Anybody” – Contenders Documentary
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deadline.comFor more than 20 years, former music industry executive Drew Dixon held onto a corrosive secret. The HBO Max documentary On the Record, directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, reveals how Dixon made the painful decision to come forward with allegations that she had been raped by her boss at Def Jam Recordings, hip hop impresario Russell Simmons.“When we first met Drew she…was struggling with actually even going on the record, going public,” Dick says during Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “We thought this stage of a survivor’s journey was really, really important to document, and it is a struggle.”Dixon said as a woman of color it was agonizing to level accusations against Simmons, a prominent Black entrepreneur,
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