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Kimora Lee Simmons Gets Sole Custody of Children

Originally posted 06/27/2008 09:35AM

Kimora Lee Simmons has won sole custody of her two daughters with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, Ming, 8, and Aoki, 5.

According to legal papers obtained by The Insider, Russell Simmons gets the girls one week out of every eight, plus extra time for summer vacations and holidays.

In addition, he pays $20,000 per child per month in child support. That cash flow stops when each reaches the age of 19 1/2, or until the daughter is emancipated, married, becomes self-supporting, joins the armed forces or stops living with Kimora Lee Simmons.

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Kimora Lee Files for Divorce from Russell Simmons

Originally posted 03/26/2008 08:00PM

Kimora Lee Simmons filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Russell Simmons, in Los Angeles County Superior Court Tuesday.

The couple announced that they had split up in March 2006, but said they had already been separated "for some time."

In court papers, Kimora, 32, cites irreconcilable differences and asks for legal and physical custody of the couple's two daughters, Ming, 8, and Aoki, 5. She requests that Simmons, 50, get "reasonable child visitation … to be accompanied at all times by the children's nanny and security personnel.

At the time of their initial separation in 2006, Simmons said in a statement: "Kimora and I will remain committed parents and caring friends with great love and admiration for each other."

Kimora has been dogged recently by rumors that she is expecting a child with boyfriend Djimon Hounsou. At an appearance in Chicago earlier this month, she told reporters. "I'm in the paper every single week – that I had a fight with my ex-husband, or that I was mad at one of his girlfriends, or that I'm pregnant, or that I demand Fiji water … Lies upon lies upon lies."

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Tyra Banks Pays $120 Brunch Tab After Mix-Up

Originally posted 04/26/2007 06:05PM

Tyra Banks finally paid a brunch bill Thursday after mistakenly leaving a Manhattan eatery without settling the check last weekend.

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Russell, Kimora Lee Simmons May Reconcile

Originally posted 04/04/2006 10:00AM

Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons announced on March 31 they'd separated after seven years of marriage. But saving their union is "a possibility," Russell Simmons tells the New York Daily News.

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Simmons Claims Victory in NY State Case

Originally posted 08/18/2004 02:00PM

In a major legal victory for Russell Simmons, a New York state judge ruled Wednesday that the hip-hop mogul and former NAACP head Benjamin Chavis will not be penalized for their roles in a June 4, 2003, rally against New York's harsh drug laws.

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