In a statement to the Daily Mail, representatives for Lee said, “Kimora and her children are shocked by the extortive harassment coming from her ex-husband, Russell Simmons, who has decided to sue her for shares and dividends of Celsius stock in which Kimora and Tim Leissner invested millions of dollars.” The statement continued, “This is an ill-advised attempt by Russell to use the legal system to access funds he is in no way entitled to, and which his own legal team confirms Russell did not pay for. I am shocked and saddened to see how your side has behaved in response to my repeated attempts to get an agreement from you to rightfully and legally reaffirm my 50% of the Celsius shares which have been locked up with the government after being used for your husband’s bail money.” “I have never said no to any request and have always gone against my own council to offer up much more than any judge would ever require of me in order to keep the peace. “Throughout my entire decades-long partnership with you I’ve done everything and anything to protect and promote our family,” he wrote. In the filing, Simmons quoted a letter he wrote to Lee in an attempt to “reaffirm my 50% of the Celsius shares” without getting the court involved. In 2016, Lee and her now husband joined Simmons’s investment company, Nu Horizons, which is allegedly how these problems all began. Simmons and Lee were married from 1998 to 2009, despite breaking up in 2006, and have maintained a friendly relationship ever since, according to People, as both business partners and coparents to their two daughters, Ming and Aoki. It also accuses the couple of breach of contract and breach of confidential relations. The Def Jam cofounder filed a complaint earlier this week, obtained by People, in which he claims that Lee and Leissner conspired to fraudulently transfer almost 4 million shares of the energy-drink company Celsius to their accounts in order to help pay for Leissner’s legal and bail fees for a 2018 money laundering case in which he pleaded guilty. Russell Simmons is taking his ex-wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, and her current husband, Tim Leissner, to court, accusing the couple of fraud.

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