Kimora Lee Simmons has worked out a deal with prosecutors that could let her beat a year-old drug charge.
In July 2004, cops in Saddle River, N.J., busted the wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, charging her with careless driving, eluding a police officer and possessing a small amount of marijuana. On Tuesday in Bergen County Superior Court, the 30-year-old Baby Phat fashionista pleaded guilty to the traffic violation. She also agreed to serve six months probation on the other charges.
Prosecutors agreed to let her into a pretrial intervention program for nonviolent first offenders. If she successfully completes the program, all charges will be dropped.
Assistant Prosecutor Wayne Mello said, “She has to report to a probation officer as directed. If a probation officer requires drug and alcohol testing, she must comply. Failure of any of these conditions means a dismissal from the pretrial intervention program.”
Kimora’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, initially denied there were drugs in Kimora’s Benz. But Kimora later admitted in Vanity Fair that there was pot in the car, “but it was not mine. I didn’t know it was there.”