By Monica Miller | June 20, 2023
His 20-year-old daughter Aoki also shared texts and soundless video call recordings in which the Def Jam co-founder appears to berate his crying daughter. “He’s been awful to me for years,” Aoki wrote on Instagram, adding that she’s had severe panic attacks as a result of his behavior.
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“My father is not well, for years” Aoki added. “He needs help and won’t accept that. He refuses to acknowledge he is not himself. He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, sen[t] a man to my sister’s apartment at 2am to scare her. He lashes out at ANYONE who does not say ‘oh Russell everything is fine.’ Well it’s not fine.”
