Russell Simmons has sued his rape accuser for $35,000 after his trial was dismissed.
In March, his rape accuser filed a $10 million lawsuit against Simmons alleging he raped her in a Sacramento, California room in 1988.
The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed because the statue of limitations of when the alleged raped occurred had passed.
Simmons made a statement:
“I vehemently deny all the allegations made against me,” Simmons said in an oft-repeated statement. “They have shocked me to my core as I have never been abusive or violent in any way in my relations with women. I have submitted myself to multiple lie detector tests. I denied forced sex and sexual harassment allegations brought against me in each test; I also answered no to the question, ‘Have you ever physically forced any woman to have sexual intercourse?’ I passed all of the lie detector tests.”