Aoki Lee Simmons, who is a model, was in a relationship with restaurateur Vittorio Assaf despite the 44-year age gap after the two met on Saint Barthélemy, a Caribbean island
Kimora Simmons has today expressed her shock that daughter Aoki had dated a man some 44 years older than her.
Aoki Simmons, then 21, was in a short-lived relationship with Vittorio Assaf, a 65-year-old restaurateur, after the pair met on holiday on Saint Barthélemy, a Caribbean island. Although Aoki’s mum, the fashion designer Kimora was concerned, she said today she has always encouraged her five children to make their own decisions — and suffer any consequences.
Speaking on a podcast today, Kimora, 50, said: “I let my kids make their own mistakes, like I said. That’s the whole thing we were saying about living out your life in public, and I think that’s very, very, very tough… I don’t even know…first of all, I know this guy. But I didn’t know this guy in that capacity like with my kid or that you were even dating my kid.”
Aoki and Vittorio’s relationship quickly developed and photographs were published of the pair enjoying a romantic holiday in April last year. They split soon after, according to reports.
Kimora, a good friend of Kim Kardashian, told the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast today she wanted to interrogate Vittorio about the relationship but bit her tongue. When asked by host Amanda Hirsch: “Were you like, ‘What the helly are you doing to Aoki,’ or no?”
Mother-of-five Kimora replied: “I was, but I didn’t say it in that way because it was this fast. And it blew up to be so much, so then you can’t be the mom that’s like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ But that definitely was the thing. But it went from 0 to 100 really quick, and I was like, ‘Aoki, I didn’t even know this was a thing.’ I found out when the world found out.”
“So that was what was so shocking. And you can’t say as a mom, and I’ve learned all these crazy things. You can’t give the, ‘I told you so,’ right now. You can’t give the, ‘What the hell are you doing’ right now. You can’t give those things right now.”
Speaking shortly after Aoki and Vittorio parted ways, an insider told PEOPLE: “Aoki is learning to navigate her private life in a public sphere. And that can be difficult. However, Kimora was concerned to see her daughter in that kind of relationship due to what she herself went through.”
Source: Mirror
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