Photo Gallery
“We’re twenty years in and we’re walking in with a million dollars,” Russell Simmons told Hamptons.com as we greeted him at the Art for Life Hamptons Gala. He was also walking in with a lot of women in beaded headbands, channeling flappers. It was a Roaring Twenties theme, in honor of the 20th anniversary of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the brainchild of brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph “Rev. Run” (of Run DMC), which seeks to bring art education back to the schools.
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LuAnn de Lesseps and Simon de Pury
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Yi Chou
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Meredith Ostrom
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Russell Simmons, Simon de Pury, and Danny Simmons
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Danny Simmons
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Angela Simmons
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Wangechi Mutu
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Jaslene Gonzalez
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Danny Simmons, Tangie Murray, Wangechi Mutu, and Russell Simmons
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Ramses Barden
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Dave Chappelle and Soledad O’Brien
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Gayle King
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Aoki Lee, Russell Simmons Jr., and Ming Lee
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Jo Jo Simmons and Russell Simmons Jr.
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Marc Ledder
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Elle Varner
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Bleona Qereti
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Dave Chappelle
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Bevy Smith
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Erika Liles and Kevin Liles
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Kedakai Turner and James Lipton
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Sherry Bronfman
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Sanya Richards-Ross and Kevin Liles
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Aoki Lee, Russell Simmons, and Ming Lee
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DJ M.O.S.
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DJ Kiss
