Def Jam co-founder and Ratner each deny allegations by model Keri
Claussen Khalighi that she was forced to perform sex act on Simmons, and
that he and Ratner ‘were in it together’
Ben Beaumont-Thomas Monday 20 November 2017
Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul who co-founded Def Jam Recordings, has been accused of sexual assault amid new accusations against the Hollywood film producer and director Brett Ratner.
Model Keri Claussen Khalighi alleges that in 1991, when she was 17, she was invited by Simmons and Ratner to Simmons’ apartment to look at a music video the pair were working on. She says that Simmons tore off her clothes and attempted to force her to have sex. “I fought it wildly,” she told the LA Times, saying she eventually “acquiesced”.
She added: “I looked over at Brett and said, ‘Help me,’ and I’ll never forget the look on his face. In that moment, the realisation fell on me that they were in it together.” Ratner has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by actors including Olivia Munn and Ellen Page.
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas Monday 20 November 2017
Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul who co-founded Def Jam Recordings, has been accused of sexual assault amid new accusations against the Hollywood film producer and director Brett Ratner.
Model Keri Claussen Khalighi alleges that in 1991, when she was 17, she was invited by Simmons and Ratner to Simmons’ apartment to look at a music video the pair were working on. She says that Simmons tore off her clothes and attempted to force her to have sex. “I fought it wildly,” she told the LA Times, saying she eventually “acquiesced”.
She added: “I looked over at Brett and said, ‘Help me,’ and I’ll never forget the look on his face. In that moment, the realisation fell on me that they were in it together.” Ratner has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by actors including Olivia Munn and Ellen Page.
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