The Pierced Piety of Russell Simmons
The hip-hop mogul’s public righteousness pushed two women to tell stories of his alleged mistreatment of them in the ’90s.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Nov 30, 2017
3 minutes
There’s an unsettling thing you can do when it comes to men accused of sexual misconduct in recent days. Go through their past work, read their memoirs, and often you will see hints of the behavior that’s gotten them in trouble.
“It was funny that I became known as a ladies’ man, but I think it was because I was very obsessive about women,” Russell Simmons wrote in his 2002 autobiography . “I rarely took no for an answer, and I believe my desire for these women, my never giving up, wore a lot of them down.”
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