Russell Simmons is being sued for at least $10 million by a woman who alleges that Simmons threatened her son, then raped her, according to court papers obtained by TheWrap.
In the suit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the anonymous California woman says she was chaperoning her son, at the time in elementary school, to a concert of rap and hip-hop acts associated with Simmons when the Def Jam Records co-founder approached her and invited the two backstage to meet the acts, after which Simmons invited the woman to an after party at the Clarion hotel.
After dropping off her son with a babysitter, the suit says, the woman went to a nightclub, then to the hotel.