Russell Simmons’ Family Drama With Daughters Ming Lee Simmons and Aoki Lee Simmons: Everything to Know

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Russell Simmons’ drama with his two daughters, Ming Lee Simmons and Aoki Lee Simmons, started a Father’s Day snub and turned into a social media brawl.The family feud started in June 2023 after Ming Lee posted a tribute for her mom, Kimora Lee Simmons, on Father’s Day, subtly shading her father. (Kimora and Russell were married from 1998 to 2009 and welcomed Ming Lee and Aoki Lee in 2000 and 2002, respectively.)Following the diss, Russell took to Instagram to share a cryptic quote implying that Kimora was the reason for his strained relationship with his two daughters.“Stop telling fathers they should have fought harder to see their children and start asking mothers why he had to fight at all,” the message read.The next day, Aoki Lee responded to the Def Jam founder’s claims by releasing a series of heated text messages and video chats — which have since been deleted — with her dad.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“My father is not well, for years, he needs help and won’t accept that he refuses to acknowledge he is not himself,” she captioned the now-deleted video. “He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, [and sent] a man to my sister’s apartment at 2 a.m.

to scare her. He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say, ‘Ooh Russell everything is fine.’ Well it’s not fine.”Kimora, for her part, came to her daughters’ defense as Aoki Lee accused the entrepreneur of verbal abuse.“Leave my kids alone,” she fired back via her Instagram Story. “This narrative of attacking the only caregiver, the only parent in the home with the kids, the mom AND the kids for one’s own shortcomings and embarrassments is dead.