{"id":484,"date":"2017-11-20T21:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T03:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2017-12-01T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T00:55:49","slug":"russell-simmons-and-hollywood-director-sex-scandal-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/russell-simmons-and-hollywood-director-sex-scandal-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Simmons and Hollywood Director Sex Scandal Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Def Jam co-founder and Director Bret Ratner each deny allegations by model Keri Claussen Khalighi that she was forced to perform sex act on Simmons, and that he and Ratner \u2018were in it together\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">In a statement, Simmons said he recalled a weekend 26 years ago that he spent with Model Keri Claussen Khalighi and he said that what she described as assault was &#8220;completely consensual and with Keri&#8217;s full participation.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keri paints a different picture.\u00a0 Model Keri Claussen Khalighi alleges that in 1991, when she was 17, she was invited by Simmons and Ratner to Simmons\u2019 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. \u201cI fought it wildly,\u201d <a class=\"u-underline\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hollywood\/la-fi-brett-ratner-russell-simmons-20171119-htmlstory.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">she told the LA Times<\/a>, saying she eventually \u201cacquiesced\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe these allegations?<\/p>\n<p>**UPDATE 12\/1\/17- Simmons announced that he is stepping down from all of his executive head positions in his companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Def Jam co-founder and Director Bret Ratner each deny allegations by model Keri Claussen Khalighi that she was forced to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,131,92,4],"tags":[49,167,168,83,169,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}