Kimora Lee Simmons is breaking her silence, more than a year after her daughter's relationship with a man 44 years her senior went public. Source: Jon Kopaloff / Jamie McCarthy The matriarch discussed the unconventional relationship on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast on Dec. 9, opening up to host Amanda Hirsch about how she felt watching her then-21-year-old daughter, Aoki Lee Simmons, date then-65-year-old restaurateur Vittorio Assaf. "I let my kids make their own mistakes, like I said.