Cenk Uygur
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Russell Simmons, Brett Ratner Accused Of Sexual Assault
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November 21, 2017
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November 21, 2017
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18:20Now PlayingA model has accused Russell Simmons and Brett Ratner of sexual assault. Cenk Uygur, Grace Baldridge, and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT
"Keri Claussen Khalighi was a 17-year-old fashion model from a farm town in Nebraska when she met Brett Ratner and Russell Simmons at a casting call.
Ratner was an up-and-coming music video director and a protege of Simmons, the Def Jam Recordings mogul. They took Khalighi to dinner one night in 1991 at Mr. Chow in New York, and then back to Simmons’ apartment to show her a music video they’d been working on.
Quickly, Simmons began making aggressive sexual advances, yanking off her clothes, Khalighi said.
“I looked over at Brett and said ‘help me’ and I'll never forget the look on his face,” she recalled. “In that moment, the realization fell on me that they were in it together.””*
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