Hip-Hop's Bling-Blingiest Fashionista / Former Model Kimora Lee Simmons Gets Busted in NJ!

Everyone's favorite hip-hop-fashion mini-mogul Kimora Lee Simmons has just notched the first--of what may still be many--scandalous revelation in a future episode of E! True Hollywood Story. She got arrested. Way to go, Kimora!

Police arrested Kimora outside her New Jersey mansion Sunday night after the queen of Baby Phat allegedly failed to comply with police requests to pull over the Mercedes Benz she was driving. According to the news reports, Kimora led police on a two-mile pursuit. After pulling over outside her Bergen County home, her Benz was searched and a small amount of an illicit substance was found in her vehicle.

Count on the Smoking Gun to get out the requisite mug shot (see above). What's is first striking about Kimora's booking-photo (and surely a disappointment for the media) is that she's doesn't look like a crazed, matted-hair, Nick Nolte-esque celebrity coming down off a bender. She looks normal (well, relatively normal for Kimora). She's got a pleasant smile. And though she doesn't look like the glamorous made-up supermodel like she in those Baby Phat ads, she doesn't look that bad.

So what's the dealio? The incident involved not just failure to pull over and possession of herb, but several other minor offenses, including driving a vehicle with a busted taillight and reckless driving. Kimora's husband, hip-hop and fashion billionaire Russell Simmons, is already crying foul. He's alleged that the arrest was a result of racial profiling.

Kimora has also said that the illicit substance found in her vehicle belonged to one of the other passengers riding in the car at the time and that she did not immediately pull over to the side of the road when police signaled her because there wasn't a shoulder along the stretch of road she was driving at the time.

Whatever. We can't wait to see how the press will feed on this. They need a new celeb to bash now that the Martha Stewart story is all played out. Luckily for her, Kimora's arrest comes during a very busy news week, so the negative media has been virtually non-existent. That could change in the next few days.

But, hey, let's face it ... Kimora may be A-List, but she isn't a household name. She isn't Martha Stewart. Kimora who? Exactly, kidz.

--Pixelator (aka, Instamatic)

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Taking the Baby Phat Out of Hip-Hop Mogulette Kimora Lee Simmons [Air Massive]
Russell Simmons' Wife Faces Drug Charges [New York Newsday]
Kimora Lee Simmons In Pot/Traffic Bust [The Smoking Gun]
Kimora arrested as hubby politicks [New York Daily News]
Kimora Lee Simmons Arrested [All Hip Hop News]
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