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I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
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Record Producer
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Queens
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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