Kimora Lee Simmons Critiques Daughter’s Relationship with Restaurateur

Kimora Lee Simmons is sharing what she truly thought-about her daughter Aoki Lee relationship a loads older man once more in April 2024.

In a clip from the Not Skinny Nevertheless Not Fat podcast shared utterly with PEOPLE ahead of the Tuesday, Dec. 9 episode, the entrepreneur spoke with host Amanda Hirsch about how she felt watching her then-21-year-old model daughter date then-65-year-old restaurateur Vittorio Assaf after the two met in St. Barths.

“What was your response to that in precise time?” Hirsch asks. 

“I let my kids make their very personal errors, like I discussed. That’s the whole factor we now have been saying about residing out your life in public, and I consider that’s very, very, very highly effective,” begins Simmons. “I don’t even suppose that was a second for them, though. Or I should say the choice. I consider it was merely that — a second. I don’t suppose it was the remainder.”

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“I don’t even know…initially, I do know this man. Nevertheless I didn’t know this man in that functionality like with my little one or that you just have been even relationship my little one,” she continues. “I do know this man rising up myself. He’s a restauranteur. I don’t know, I don’t want to get into troubles legally nevertheless I consider his standing perhaps precedes him. Is that okay to say legally?”

Assaf is the founding father of Serafina Restaurant Group, and the two met whereas vacationing in St. Barths, a favorite Simmons family journey trip spot.

“Have been you need, ‘What the helly are you doing to Aoki,’ or no?” asks Hirsch,

“I was, nevertheless I didn’t say it in that method on account of it was this fast,” Simmons says, snapping her fingers. “And it blew as a lot as be loads, so then it’s possible you’ll’t be the mom that’s like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ Nevertheless that positively was the issue.”

“Nevertheless it absolutely went from 0 to 100 truly quick, and I was like, ‘Aoki, I didn’t even know this was an element.’ I found when the world found,” admits the mom of 5. “So that was what was so beautiful. And it’s possible you’ll’t say as a mom, and I’ve realized all these crazy points. You might’t give the, ‘I knowledgeable you so,’ correct now. You might’t give the, ‘What the hell are you doing’ correct now. You might’t give these points correct now.” 

“She was going by way of it,” says Hirsch. 

“Yeah, it was heaps,” responds Simmons. “It was heaps. Nevertheless I do suppose sometimes, of those kinds of points, I actually really feel like and having gone by way of not exactly the similar nevertheless associated…that enormous age gap relationship, let’s merely identify it that. I do suppose it’s predatorial. We talked about all of that to get to what Kimora thinks about it. I consider that’s predatorial and kinda crazy.” 

4 days after PEOPLE confirmed Simmons’ daughter and Assaf have been spending time collectively, a provide close to the Simmons family knowledgeable PEOPLE that they parted strategies.

“Not solely is it ‘over’, it was under no circumstances an element,” the insider knowledgeable PEOPLE. “Aoki is finding out to navigate her private life in a public sphere. And that could be robust. Nonetheless, Kimora was concerned to see her daughter in that kind of relationship as a consequence of what she herself went by way of.”