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        <title><![CDATA[Russell Simmons accuser calls out ‘Breakfast Club’ after mogul’s rape denial]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Russell Simmons denied <strong>allegations of sexual assault</strong> during a radio interview Wednesday, leading one of his accusers to blast the program for giving the hip hop mogul a platform.</p><p>The 62-year-old music producer spoke out on &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; when co-host Charlamagne tha God asked him about the new HBO Max docuseries &#8220;On the Record,&#8221; in which Simmons has been accused of sexually assaulting three women.</p><p>&#8220;I have not watched it,&#8221; Simmons said, before going on to detail his life as a &#8220;playboy&#8221; while denying he ever forced himself on anyone.</p><p>&#8220;I’m guilty—of having underwritten, supported, made soundtracks for, taken advantage of, and lived in a grossly unjust society,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;I helped write the song ‘I’m a Ho’ with Whodini. … I made the movie &#8216;How to Be a Player&#8217; and Bell Bill Bellamy played me. So I know what I&#8217;m guilty of, and I&#8217;ve been unconscious as a playboy, and today the title is appropriate of ‘womanizer,’ So I&#8217;m guilty of that. And you know, back then I thought it was a game &#8230; there were no black actresses that I didn&#8217;t date, and they&#8217;re my friends today.</p><p>&#8220;I went out every night, looking for new girls to date, and almost all of them are my friends today &#8230; they don&#8217;t have the experience of me being the monster that the movie makes me to be.&#8221;</p><p>Simmons also discussed Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s initial involvement in the doc and her decision to <strong>ultimately back out.</strong></p><p>&#8220;She walked away, and she did say that the stories had inconsistencies — not one, but all the stories, all three girls.</p><p>&#8220;I could never say that someone doesn&#8217;t feel victimized, these stories are 25-40 years old. I can&#8217;t say that someone doesn&#8217;t feel victimized, I can tell you that I don&#8217;t feel I victimized them.&#8221;</p><p>Accuser Sil Lai Abrams immediately took to social media to call out the businessman and &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; itself for giving the Def Jam co-founder a platform.</p><div class="embed-wrapper twitter"><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The biggest radio show in the Black community just gave a huge middle finger to Black women and survivors of sexual assault. This is obscene <a href="https://twitter.com/breakfastclubam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@breakfastclubam</a></p><p>&mdash; Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sil_Lai/status/1270553576423776256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p>&#8220;The biggest radio show in the Black community just gave a huge middle finger to Black women and survivors of sexual assault,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Sil_Lai/status/1270553576423776256" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Abrams tweeted.</a> &#8220;This is obscene @breakfastclubam. Why do you carry water for this man? Why now? Why are you so tone deaf? You&#8217;re all complicit in ensuring that black women&#8217;s right to bodily autonomy continues to be denied. You&#8217;re also rape apologists.&#8221;</p><p>Abrams claims Simmons raped her in 1994.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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