Designer Simmons Gets 6 Months' Probation
Aug 10, 1:58 p.m. EST
Kimora Lee Simmons has agreed to serve six months of probation for allegedly driving erratically and ignoring a police car's flashing lights and wailing siren for several miles in July 2004.
Simmons, wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, had also faced drug possession charges after officers found a small amount of marijuana in her car. She was arrested outside the couple's Saddle River estate.
Bergen County prosecutors agreed to allow Simmons into the county's pretrial intervention program for nonviolent first offenders. She pleaded guilty Tuesday in Superior Court to careless driving. If she successfully completes the program, all the charges will be dropped.
"This is certainly an aberration, a one-time mistake of judgment," Assistant Prosecutor Wayne Mello said. "It's precisely the circumstance that pretrial intervention was created for."
Simmons' lawyer, Brian Neary, called the case "an unfortunate incident."
Simmons, a former model, is the creative director of the Baby Phat clothing label.
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