- Kimora Lee Simmons and Aoki Lee Simmons alleged on Instagram that Russell Simmons had been "abusive."
- The pair shared assorted text screenshots and statements on social media regarding Simmons.
Russell Simmons' daughter Aoki Lee Simmons and ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons called him out on Instagram on Monday for "abusive" behavior, with Kimora saying that "enough was enough" when it came to going after their family.
In an Instagram story post Monday, Kimora said that Simmons had been "threatening my kids lives." In a subsequent post, she told Simmons to stay away from their children.
"This narrative of attacking the only caregiver, the only parent in the home with the kids, the mom, AND the kids for one's own shortcomings and embarrassments is dead. Dead. Dead," Kimora wrote in an Instagram story post Monday.
Kimora and Simmons married in 1998 and share two daughters: Ming Lee Simmons, 23, and Aoki, 20. They announced their split in 2006, and finalized their divorce in 2009.
On Monday, People reported that Simmons seemed to reference his ex-wife in an Instagram story post.
"Stop telling fathers that they should have fought harder to see their children & start asking mothers why he had to fight at all," the post said, per People.
In separate Instagram posts on her own account, Simmons and Kimora's daughter Aoki, 20, shared screenshots that appear to be text conversations with her father, labeled under the contact name "Daddy." In one text that appears to have been sent by Simmons, he accuses Kimora of having "stolen my money and the love of my kids," to which Aoki tells him, "Don't ever say that again."
In a lengthy text that Aoki posted to her Instagram story, she says that Simmons' actions "were giving me panic attacks to the point I was placed on emergency medication every time we spoke." Later in the text, she tells Simmons that he would "yell and scream" at her "about a legal situation that I can't even respond to because I AM NOT INVOLVED."
In an on-screen caption on another Instagram story post, Aoki said that Simmons would contact her friends or boyfriend when she blocked him from contacting her. In a separate post, she wrote that "some of us" believed that Simmons was "mentally ill or experiencing something like dementia," adding that he had been a great father and co-parent but "suddenly turned."
In subsequent Instagram story posts on Monday, Kimora defended her daughters, accusing Simmons of telling Aoki and her older sister, Ming, that they would "never work again" and that he would "ruin" Aoki.
"Your threats and lies and intimidation manouvers and tactics are sad," Kimora wrote in an Instagram story post. "Stop it please. Your own flesh and blood? Enough is enough."
Several hours after Kimora's Instagram story posts, Simmons uploaded a photo of Aoki and Ming from the relaunch campaign for Kimora's brand Baby Phat to Instagram.
"DEEPLY sorry for being frustrated and yelling," he wrote in the caption. "but know this . . . there are no conditions . . . for sure i love you guys more than i love myself."
Representatives for Kimora Lee Simmons declined to comment on this story. Reps for Simmons did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.