Kimora Lee Simmons called her daughter Aoki Lee Simmons’ brief romance with much older Vittorio Assaf “predatorial.”
Simmons spoke candidly about the 2024 fling which took place when Aoki was just 21 while the restauranteur was 65. She explained and how “tough” it is to watch her daughter make public “mistakes.”
During her appearance on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast dropping Tuesday, Dec. 9, Kimora noted that Aoki and Assaf were not seriously dating and only shared “a moment” together. She also shared that she knew Assaf — who’s the founder of Serafina Restaurant Group — before he started dating Aoki, who’s now 23.
“I know this guy growing up myself. He’s a restauranteur,” she said. “I don’t know, I don’t want to get into troubles legally but I think his reputation probably precedes him.”
The mother of five said she found out Aoki was dating Assaf “when the world found out” and admitted she was shocked.
“I’ve learned all these crazy things. You can’t give the, ‘I told you so,’ right now,’” she said about her mindset at the time.
“You can’t give the, ‘What the hell are you doing’ right now. You can’t give those things right now.”
Looking back, Kimora called the romance “predatorial.”
“I feel like and having gone through not exactly the same but similar…that big age gap relationship, let’s just call it that. I do think it’s predatorial,” she said. “… I think that’s predatorial and kinda crazy.”
Kimora met her first husband, Russell Simmons, in 1992 when she was 17 and he was 35. Kimora and Russell, who were married from 1998-2009, share Aoki as well as daughter Ming, 25.
Meanwhile, Kimora previously admitted that she was “embarrassed” to see the PDA photos of Aoki and Assaf, whom she likened to a toad.
“She’s a young pretty girl, and I think, we don’t think the toads we may kiss is going to be broadcasted,” she shared. “And I personally feel a little bit like she was set up, which is why I try to teach the girls. There’s definitely an age dynamic there.”
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