After a brief stint in Los Angeles, Simmons returned to New York, where, in January of 2023, according to the NYPD detective on the case, he “turned himself in” on the charges that had been brought against him by Buccini. In Simmons’s telling, however, “I went to the precinct…and I dealt with it with them,” he says, “and I actually left.” “What’s also crazy is that they reached out to me to come back and work there last year,” Simmons tells me—a claim Buccini denies. A screenshot she shared with Vanity Fair purports to show their last messages to each other: “Okay so now I’m out of a job lol,” he texted her on June 28, 2024. “Are you willing to just put the past behind [us] and let me come back?” She never responded. At the same time that he was working at Kirna Zabête, Simmons was living in a Gramercy apartment, where he also allegedly paid rent for only a couple months. A desperate sublessor agreed to a less formal agreement, but just …