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Fashion designer: Leissner did not finance me
Published:  May 28, 2017 2:03 PM
Updated: 6:22 AM
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Fashion designer and model Kimora Lee Simmons has denied claims that her fashion business was financed by her husband Tim Leissner - a disgraced banker with links to 1MDB.

Simmons told WWD.com that her entry-level designer label Kimora Lee Simmons was self-funded,

"I fund my own business... I've been in the fashion industry since (I was) 12, modeling and all that.

"So all my money, not that I want to say it that way, this is my third marriage that I’m on so, no, my husband has nothing to do with my professional life," she said.

Simmons was responding to a report by the New York Post which claimed that the Kimora Lee Simmons brand could become a "casualty" of an international graft probe.

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