Russell Simmons’ 21-year-old daughter Aoki Lee Simmons has broken up with her 65-year-old boyfriend following a brief relationship.
It was reported by People that Simmons was involved with restauranteur Vittorio Assaf after being spotted together in St. Barths.
The outlet reports that Aoki’s mother Kimora Lee Simmons was concerned by the fling, which was apparently never serious.
People claimed: “Not only is it ‘over’, it was never a thing. Aoki is learning to navigate her private life in a public sphere. And that can be difficult.
“However, Kimora was concerned to see her daughter in that kind of relationship due to what she herself went through.”
Aoki herself has also spoken out about the rumors and denied that she has a boyfriend.
She said on Instagram Live: “I don’t have a boyfriend. I don’t read tabloids in general.”
Though Aoki and Assaf have since parted ways, Russell Simmons gave the couple his blessing during an interview with TMZ earlier this week.
“I’m not gonna kick and scream about her choices. All I can do is offer my advice and unconditional love,” he said.
Aoki previously called the Def Jam Records co-founder a “deadbeat” father during a public family row on social media.
“My father is not well, for years, he needs help and won’t accept that he refuses to acknowledge he is not himself,” she wrote in a post on Instagram. “He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, send a man to my sisters apt at 2am to scare her.”
She continued: “He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say ‘oh Russell everything is fine.’ Well it’s not fine. If I ‘never get a fashion job again’ like he threatens, I’ll be a lawyer I guess and work in criminal justice. Sure I love my job but if he takes it away from me I won’t die. You don’t threaten my sister and grandma and mother and say ‘who’s gonna believe you I’m Russell Simmons nobody thinks I’m crazy’ well he is.”
Aoki claimed that Russell was “awful” her and was “abusive.”
She also shared messages between the two in which he calls her mother a “piece of shit” and accused her of stealing money from him.
Russell Simmons has been living in Bali ever since he was accused multiple times of sexual assault in 2017. He denies the accusations.
