Model, mom and mogul Kimora Lee-Simmons and her hip-hop husband, Russell "Rush" Simmons are headed to divorce court. They've been got a 'hood divorce some time ago, as both have been shacking up with other folks. Now it looks to be official—amidst pregnancy rumors, Kimora filed papers and dropped the D-Bomb on Rush. I'm all for the grandeur of love as much as any twice-divorced thirty-odd year old man could be, but I sure hope Rush copped a good pre-nup, or Kimora is taking him to the wash. Fortunately, I've been broke on both my trips to court: all my wives got were wedding gifts and the good porn. I lucked out like that.
I guess.
It's interesting to me that, on paper, the Simmons were a couple who had it all. And even all Yoga'd-up, talking that Dalai Lama, peace and love ying-yang, the Simmons couldn't hold it together. Not that they cared, but I never really dug them as a couple anyway, to be honest, because Rush met Kimora when she was madd-young, and it felt kinda icky for me, like he was a predator/rich pervert picking up on young naïve girls. For a relationship to go the distance, you have to have something in common. From the curb, I couldn't imagine what Rush and Kimora had in common. As it turns out, business sense may have been the only thing commonality they could find.
There are kids involved, and I hope they can come up with a co-parenting plan that's in the best interest of the children. So far, they seem to have worked out an arrangement that works, where the Mommies, Daddies, boyfriends and girlfriends are one big happy family. As I alluded to in another post, this is really becoming, for better or worse, the reality of the future. It's sad to see them part, because in a lot of ways, they were the First Couple of the Hip-Hop Generation. I hope the Simmons' can maintain the same class and composure we've seen from them up to this point. Rush has a talent for making lemon out of lemonade. But divorce changes everything, and it's hard to know what you'll do when the D-Bomb drops on you.
How come they could work together and build a business but couldn't apply that same ethic to building a life together?
