Russell Simmons Claims Rape Accuser Sent Him Nudes After Consensual Sex

Russell Simmons claims one of his rape accusers is a liar who sent him nudes after they had a consensual relationship.

In court documents the rap mogul alleges that 37-year-old Jennifer Jarosik sent him unsolicited nude pictures and propositioned him through text messages.

Simmons claims that he met Jarosik, a “self-described ‘self-employed Tai/Yoga body work instructor,’” around 2006 and says they had a decade-long casual and consensual relationship.

“Most of the correspondence between the parties is one-sided, as Mr. Simmons rarely initiated communication with Ms. Jarosik by text or email, and did not respond to most of her communications,” he claims in his filing on April 4 in California Central District Court, saying she also referred to him as “babe” in her messages.

Jarosik filed suit against Simmons at the end of January, claiming he raped her in August 2016.

Simmons claims that Jarosik emailed him on July 23, 2016 — prior to the alleged assault — saying, “I emailed u love.” She also texted him on July 31 saying, “love to c u soon,” he said.

She then sent him a text message in September — after the alleged assault occurred — saying, “Sending love <3,” according to Simmons. Jarosik also sent messages saying she missed him but he ignored her, he said. He claims that he also received nude photos during this time and that she never confronted him about an alleged assault throughout their correspondences. Now, he alleges that her suit is nothing more than an attempt to “extract large amounts of money” from him “after hearing that women were able to recover money for real abuse by actual sexual predators” as he refused to participate in the aspiring filmmaker’s documentary project. Simmons — who has faced a number of sexual misconduct allegations since the fall of 2017 — was also slapped with a $10 million lawsuit in March for allegedly sexually assaulting another woman and threatening to rape her son. Simmons denies the claims and told us at the time, “I vehemently deny all the allegations made against me. They have shocked me to my core as I have never been abusive or violent in any way in my relations with women.” Simmons attempted to launch a #NotMe campaign via Instagram in response to the #MeToo movement, but dropped his crusade after deciding “that this is a time for women to speak.”

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