A California woman is dragging Russell Simmons into court, alleging her raped her.
ABC News reports that Jennifer Jarosik filed a $5 million lawsuit against Simmons in a California district court Wednesday, January 24.
Jarosik said she and Simmons became friends in 2006 and shared "love and passion for meditation, yoga and a vegan diet."
In August of that same year she claims the business mogul invited her to his home and propositioned her for sex. When she refused, Simmons "got aggressive" and pushed her on his bed. The two struggled and at some point Jarosik fell off the bed and hit her head.
Simmons then allegedly "pounced on her while she was still in shock and fear, and proceeded to rape her."
Jarosik says she was left "sick, sore, lame, disabled and disordered, both internally and externally and suffered from extreme emotional distress."
Simmons issued a statement denying the allegation:
"These horrific accusations have shocked me to my core and all of my relations have been consensual. I am blessed to have shared extraordinary relationships, whether through work or love, with many great women; and I have enormous respect for the women’s movement worldwide and their struggle for respect, dignity, equality and power. I am devastated by any reason I may have given to anyone to say or think of me in the ways that are currently being described."
He continued: "In recent weeks, some former business, creative and romantic partners have aired grievances as claims I categorically reject. In some of these instances, financial motives and direct contradictory witness testimony has been supplied to the media, which has been completely left out of stories. The current allegations range from the patently untrue to the frivolous and hurtful. The presumption of innocent until proven guilty must not be replaced by 'Guilty by Accusation.'"
Jarosik is the sixth woman to publicly accuse the Def Jam Recordings co-founder of sexual assault.
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