Tag Archives: Russell Simmons

What Divorced Dads Can Learn from Russell Simmons

Listen up mad dads… here’s something you don’t hear everyday: Unlike some fathers, Russell Simmons “very happily” pays child support. No kidding. Despite various news publications making it sound as though he’s being forced to pay out huge sums of cash in child support, rap mogul Russell Simmons insists he “very happily volunteered” to fork over the dough. Simmons set the record straight on his divorce settlement yesterday. In an online message to fans the music tycoon says that he wasn’t “ordered” to pay $40,000 a month in child support payments to his daughters Ming, 9, and Aoki, 6, rather … Continue reading →

Uma Gets Engaged and Kimora Gets the Kids

Just weeks before her ex-husband’s lover is due to give birth to her children’s new half-sibling (got that) Uma Thurman has gotten a massive rock and a wedding proposal. Thurman is officially engaged to her Swiss multimillionaire boyfriend, Arpad “Arki” Busson, according to her rep. New York’s Daily News was the first to report the engagement adding that the actress has always wanted to add to her family, but unlike her ex, Ethan Hawke, who impregnated the couple’s former nanny she plans to do it the old-fashioned way—after she is legally wed. As for the bling that Thurman is now … Continue reading →

Dumbfounding Hollywood Divorce

Yes, I know it’s Hollywood. And yes, I know that most celebrities march to the beat of their own drummers. But you tell me if this isn’t one of the most bizarre divorce situations in Tinseltown (or anywhere for that matter). Kimora Lee Simmons officially filed for divorce from her estranged husband, rap mogul Russell Simmons, yesterday. Nothing strange about that, right? Not unless you consider that the couple initially split in March 2006. That’s when Russell reportedly filed for divorce. Despite being served with papers that essentially told her that her husband felt he was better off without her, … Continue reading →

Only In Hollywood—A “Unique” Celebrity Relationship

Call me old-fashioned… or a prude. Call me anything you want, and while you’re at it could you please explain to me how some celebrity couples continuously get away with redefining the definition of marriage. Case in point: Mega-mogul Russell Simmons and his estranged wife Kimora Lee Simmons. The couple went public several months ago with the news that they had separated, BUT were still living under the same roof, raising their children together, and working side-by-side one another (Kimora heads the Baby Phat offshoot of Simmons’s Phat Farm clothing label). So to recap: they work together, parent together, and … Continue reading →