How ‘On The Record’ Captured Drew Dixon’s Story for Powerful Russell Simmons Doc

Janee Bolden Last week, music mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, who has been accused of rape or sexual misconduct by multiple women, made an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” morning show during which he spent a good portion of the interview attempting to refute accusations levied against him in the recent documentary “On The Record,” which is currently streaming on HBO Max.Following the interview, the Time’s Up organization responded to several of Simmons comments; as did Drew Dixon and

Russell Simmons has once again denied the sexual assault allegations against him, insisting that while he’s guilty of being a “playboy”, he has never forced himself on anyone.

Russell Simmons has once again denied the sexual assault allegations against him, insisting that while he’s guilty of being a “playboy”, he has never forced himself on anyone.Accusations against the hip-hop mogul first emerged in 2017, in a New York Times article in which Drew Dixon, a former executive at his Def Jam record label, claimed Simmons raped her at his apartment in Manhattan, New York.Two more women, Sil Lai Abrams and Sheri Sher, have also accused Simmons of sexual misconduct, but as

On the Record — which features accounts from multiple women accusing Russell Simmons of rape — the hip-hop mogul was invited onto The Breakfast Club, where he once again denied the allegations against him."Back then, I thought it was a game…. There were no Black actresses that I didn’t date and they’re my friends today," Simmons said on the long-running radio show.

Following the debut of HBO Max's sexual assault documentary On the Record — which features accounts from multiple women accusing Russell Simmons of rape — the hip-hop mogul was invited onto The Breakfast Club, where he once again denied the allegations against him. "Back then, I thought it was a game….

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMusic mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, who has been accused of rape or sexual misconduct by multiple women, as recounted in the recent documentary “On the Record,” appeared on “The Breakfast Club” Wednesday morning — and the Time’s Up movement and one of his accusers were quick to respond.

Music mogul Russell Simmons is opening up about the sexual assault allegations brought against him in the HBO documentary “On the Record.” The documentary gives first-hand accounts of rape claims made against Russell by multiple women, allegations that he has repeatedly denied.In an interview with the Breakfast Club, Russell talks about how he felt when he heard the accounts of these women. “I could never say that someone doesn’t feel victimized,” Russell Simmons said.

Teaching your daughters to have ‘boundaries’ and say ‘no’ won’t protect them from rapists like you @UncleRUSH I said ‘NO’… ‘STOP’… ‘PLEASE’… ‘I’M BEGGING YOU’… and CRIED, while you ripped off my clothes, pinned me down and told me to stop fighting.

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Director Kirby Dick and producing partner/co-director Amy Ziering have spent the better part of the last decade deeply involved in exposing areas of American society where sexual assault runs rampant. They have the mechanics of the rape culture procedural doc down to a science, yet nothing in their films feels formulaic.

There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.

There’s an elegant, almost poetic silence to one of the most compelling scenes of “On the Record,” a powerful new documentary about sexual violence that knows just when to dial down to a hushed quiet.

In December 2017, two months after sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein came to light, former music industry executive Drew Dixon went public with her story accusing hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons of rape. When the documentary On The Record, which recounts her story and decision to come forward, debuts May 27 on HBO Max, it lands at a different moment on the #MeToo trajectory.

By Denise Petski

Drew Dixon, 50, is one of the central voices who appears in HBO Max’s new powerful documentary, On The Record. The former Def Jam executive is one of several women to have publicly accused hip-hop music pioneer, Russell Simmons, 62, of sexual assault.

By Addie Morfoot