Russell Simmons is demanding $100 million from HBO, claiming the network buried evidence that would’ve cleared him.
Russell Simmons just escalated his legal war with HBO by filing an amended lawsuit in Manhattan that demands the network pay him $100 million for what he’s calling a deliberate campaign to destroy his reputation.
The Def Jam co-founder claims that HBO and the filmmakers behind the 2020 documentary “On the Record” willfully suppressed evidence that would’ve cleared him, including nine consecutive CIA-grade polygraph results that lasted three hours each.
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