The department’s special victims unit is looking to speak with seven of the women who have accused Simmons of sexually improper behavior in Manhattan since the…
The NYPD has opened an investigation into Russell Simmons following accusations that he sexually assaulted multiple women in his Manhattan apartment and at his office, sources told The Post on Thursday.
The department’s special victims unit is looking to speak with seven of the women who have accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually improper behavior in Manhattan since the ’80s, according to the sources.
Simmons vehemently denied the allegations in a statement on Thursday.
The probe comes one day after Sherri Hines, a former member of an all-female hip-hop, told The LA Times that Simmons raped her in his office around 1983.
Another alleged victim, model Keri Claussen Khalighi, claims that Simmons raped her in his apartment in 1991.
Screenwriter Jenny Lumet also said in the Hollywood Reporter that Simmons had sexually violated her in 1991, also at his apartment.
The NYPD has reached out to three of Simmons’ alleged victims and the LAPD is looking into three allegations that happened in California, the sources said.
