RUSSELL SIMMONS’ ‘ART FOR LIFE’ EVENT

REV RUN, RUSSELL SIMMONS & MOST OF THE CREW

PHOTOS BY: JOHNNY NUNEZ

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation held it’s 8th Annual ART FOR LIFE, benefit event celebrating the creative energy of New York City youth this weekend in East Hampton.

This benefit is one of Rush Philanthropic’s most important annual fundraising efforts, attended annually by a sold-out audience of leaders in the entertainment, arts, business, and philanthropic communities.

VANESSA SIMMONS & AOKI LEE SIMMONS NIA LONG @ ‘ART FOR LIFE’ DEBORAH COX

Nicole Pantenburg, Kenneth “Baby Face” Edmonds, L.A. Reid and Erika Reid RUSSELL SIMMONS & DAUGHTERS MING LEE & AOKI LEE
REV RUN, JUSTINE SIMMONS, ANGELA & VANESSA
CHAMILLIONAIRE MELYSSA FORD & Brian Michael Cox KEVIN LILES & NIA LONG

KICKING IT POOLSIDE IN THE HAMPTONS

MING LEE & AOKI LEE ANGELA POOLSIDE russell & nia poolside
SOME OF THE SIMMONS KIDS POOLSIDE
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93 Responses to RUSSELL SIMMONS’ ‘ART FOR LIFE’ EVENT

  1. Beautiful Family, Love to see that, Looks like a lovely affair …….until we get to that hooch that sticks out like a sore thumb…she can declass almost anything

  2. my butt hurts

    why are the comments so huge now? a couple of minutes ago they were normal size. Anyway, this is the family black america needs to emulate. They are doin the damn thing! Supporting one another and rollin in the dough. I guess i am the only one who thinks Angela looks better than Vanessa. Angela is gorgeous, leave her alone!!!!

  3. MODERN GODDESS

    BEAUTIFUL BLACK FAMILY THEY ALL LOOK NICE IS THAT YELLOW.

    NIA LOOKS CUTE

    I DON’T KNOW WHY PPL ARE COMING DOWN ON MELYSSA FORD. WHAT DID SHE DO THAT WAS WRONG? BEING A VIDEO GIRL? OH PLEASE!

    YOU KNOW THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WOMEN WHO APPEARED IN MUSIC VIDEOS WRE NOT REFERRED TO AS BITCHES AND HOES. BUT AGAIN AS THUG CULTURE TOOK OVER RAP, THE WAY WOMEN WERE TREATED AND TALKED ABOUT DEGRADED AND THAT INCLUDES THE WOMEN WHOM THESE MEN EMPLOYED TO BE IN THERE VIDEOS.

    RAPPERS WOULD TALK ABOUT WOMEN WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN FULL-CLOTHING OR WOMEN THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RAP GAME. OPRAH MIGHT I ADD. THEREFORE RAPPERS USE TO TALK ABOUT WOMEN IN GENERAL.

    MEYLSSA FORD IS JUST SOME POOL GIRL FROM THE HOOD WHO NEEDED TO SLLEP WITH SOMEONE TO PAY HER BILLS. SHE HAS ENDORSEMENTS AND DOES QUITE A FEW THINGS PPL DON’T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. MIGHT I ADD SHE’LL BE IN A MOVIE TOO.

    HOWEVER JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS A VIDEO VIXEN PPL LIKE TO TAKE SHOTS AT HER LIKE THEY DO ALL WOMEN. ALL I EVER SEEN MELYSSA DO IS SHOW HER FACE IN VIDEOS NOT ONCE DID I SEE HER BE A “TIP DRILL” OR TELLING THE WHOLE WORLD THAT SHE FUCKED 1OOO MEN. NOT ALL VIDEO GIRLS ARE LIKE SUPERHEAD.

  4. Nia is my bestfriend. Love that girl. :o )The Simmons look absolutely wonderful.

  5. Go

    What a beautiful family; the Simmons are.

  6. txshawty

    This is the cutest family…I love em!

    Russell lil girls are so beautiful…but my favorite for some reason is the youngest daughter, I think Aoki…she just seems a lil less girly than her older sister, lol…Ming be over there like, “Ooh camera, I gotta look cute” while Aoki be like, ‘Sup? What it do? If I’m posed I’m posed, if I’m not, whateva’…but they’re both cute, I’m just feeling Aoki’s cute, tom-boyish style…not too cutesy lol

  7. Everyone looks great..with the exception of Melyssa Ford..she looks kind of worn out..and is it just me or does NIA’s skin glow?! absolutely beautiful……..xo

  8. Debbie…..”HOW DID U GET HERE?” Where u been ma? The kids are cute and looks like alot of fun was had.

  9. Oh God, why is the font on this page so big, it scared the shit out of me.

  10. Poetic_lovagirl

    What’s going on with this post Angel ? The fonts is huge .

  11. Everyone looks so nice. Especially Nia she looks so pretty. Where has Debra Cox been?

  12. I ABSOLUTELY LOOVE THIS FAMILY!!..They serve as great examples,I pray God blesses me with a marriage as blessed & joyful as Rev Run & his wife seem to have one day!
    Diggy & Russ Jnr. so so cute!

  13. They do look wonderful all together with all that pretty yellow on ! Runs daughters look nice as they do most of the time.They are very stylish and pretty young ladies. The oldest could be a model and the next to oldest has strong resemblance to her dad! Is the ldest son Runs (are all of his chiuldren by Justine, does anyone know.I heard the daughters werent)That oldest boy looks like him also!The young boys are cute,but they look mor elike their mama to me. Ming & Aoki are cute as always! Runs wife looks very nice and conservative .

  14. i love the simmons family they are soo cute

  15. HEY WHO SCREWED WITH THEY TYPE! LOL

  16. OOOPS SORRY, I MEANT THE TYPE!
    THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY.
    THOSE GIRLS ARE TOO ADORABLE. THEY LOOK LIKE LITTLE MODELS. WELL, THEY ARE LITTLE MODELS. LOL

  17. Tata

    Where’s Kimora? Probably up under Dijmon. I can’t blame her because I would be too.

  18. Kori

    I am happy for them they are a beautiful group of people. Even though they have so much they aren’t disconnected *like the Jacksons* and they are still very real. And I have always thought Ming was the sweet one LOL

  19. dg1234

    THEY ALL LOOK GOOD LOVE THE SIMMONS FAMILY, SEEM “TRULY” HAPPY A RARITY IN THE SHOWBIZ WORLD.

    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK REV. RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  20. YEAH LOVE THE SIMMIONS FAMILY

  21. LOL DiGGY iS MY HOMiE FOR REAL AND DA BEST ONE ON RUNS HOUSE

  22. tonya

    they have one of the most beautiful families …. rev eun and russell can sure make some beautiful babies…go bless them ..they deserve the respect they’ve earned….

  23. GODIVAKAI the 2 girls Vanessa & Angela & Jojo,the eldest boy aren’t Justine’s

  24. Ms Hamptons

    My girlfriend and I did the event this past weekend at Russell Simmons home in the Hamptons and it was so much fun. Took real nice picture and everyone looked great. However Nia Long acted very shady to fans that wanted a picture with her, she refused everyone. While everyone else that actually still have an acting career was nice to all their fans.

  25. Shiaira Early

    Ming Lee Simmons,Aoki Simmons,Kimora Lee Simmons,and Ruessll Simmons!!

  26. Shiaira Early

    Ming Lee Simmons,and Aoki Lee Simmons

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  28. jodii

    in love runs house i watch it every time it comes on
    Love u Diggy

  29. jodii

    i love u diggy and i love run”s house

  30. Clara

    Ya really look like real family

  31. mily

    i am not triying to be mine but russell jr looks so dull and boring then the other bros and the girls are o.k but the younger one looks spoilt and then we have kimoras 2 there are so cut but spoilt i think they have more jolre then me and i have lot of jolre then last but not lest we have the perant to be onas ALL the chilren or spoilt so for the perant i fill sorry but i love the holl big family espeshaly the boys and the 2 small girls. mily 16

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