Kimora Lee Simmons and her children ‘are fine’ after House catches fire
Kimora Lee Simmons and her family are safe after their Los Angeles home caught fire.
“Everything is going well with the children and I. I cannot express my deepest gratitude enough to the numerous battalions, ladders and units who assisted us for hours,” Simmons, 48, wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, December 2. “[They] probably saved our lives. THANK YOU! 🙏 ❤️ 🥺.”
The Baby Phat designer uploaded several images of the LAFD officers on scene, dressed in their gear, as they put out a fire and smoke in Simmons’ fireplace.
Although Simmons did not reveal what happened or who was home at the time of the fire, she is a mother of five children. Kimora shares daughters Ming, 23, and Aoki, 21, with ex-husband Russell Simmonswhom she was married to between 1998 and 2009. Kimora later welcomed son Kenzo, 14, with ex Djimon Hounsou and son Wolfe, 8, with husband Tim Leissner. Kimora also adopted son Gary, now 13, in January 2020.
“I am blessed and very lucky to have such a boy [Gary] and it was a very painless feeling. He just came along as if he was born there,” the proud mother said exclusively We weekly the following March. “We’re a big group, a loud group. Everyone is always yelling at me, ‘Mom, mom, help me do this, do that.’ ‘Mom mom mom.’ So in that sense he is exactly involved.
Their family raised eyebrows in June after Ming wrote a Father’s Day tribute to Kimora without naming Russell, 66, who then apparently claimed his ex-wife had interfered in his parental relationship.
“My father is not doing well, he has needed help for years and will not accept his refusal to acknowledge that he is not himself,” Aoki said via a since-deleted Instagram post, accusing Russell of verbal abuse. “He’s threatened and bullied my sister and my grandmother… He lashes out at ANYONE who doesn’t say, ‘Ooh Russell, everything’s fine.’ Well, it’s not good.”
While Russell fervently denied the allegations before apologizing to his daughters, Kimora had the support of Ming and Aoki. To this day, Aoki has no “regrets” about speaking out.
“Some of it was already there. There were reasons why I thought it was reasonable to publish, because it was in a kind of silent bubble,” she said Teen fashion in a profile from September, in which they emphasize that despite the public drama, they have a “normal family.”