It’s no wonder Kimora Lee Simmons wanted to get rid of this book.
One of the biggest deals at the Simmons family’s ongoing hip-hop yard sale today was a book from the divorced couple’s collection that failed to make good on its promise.
The barely-touched copy of “Make Up, Don’t Break Up,” a self-help tome by Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil, sold for just $3.
Instead of “making up,” rap mogul Russell Simmons and his reality star wife Kimora have decided to sell out – liquidating virtually every item at their posh Saddle River home in a 3-day sale that will end tomorrow. Items range from a $200,000 bed, to a $100,000 painting to tacky bric-a-brac that went for only few dollars.
The sale included items like a glass pumpkin that went for $40, a piggy bank festooned in red feathers for $25, and a bizarre Christmas ornament of a purple blowfish with glittery lipstick that went for $5.
“I was hoping someone would buy this so I wouldn’t have to look at it anymore,” a sale worker said of the homely puffer.
Today was the second day of the family’s mega yard sale, drawing a massive crowd to their mansion, which they signed a contract to sell last month for $13.9 million.
The event was being shot for an episode of Kimora’s reality show, which sources said will air in November.
By the early afternoon, more than 100 cars were parked along tony Fox Hedge Road and a line stretched more than 40-people long outside the gate.
“I’m really unhappy I chose to work overtime today,” said one harried Saddle River cop, who was on hand to keep order.
Cheryl DeBello said she just couldn’t stay away when she learned that Russell and Kimora were putting their possessions up for sale.
“I heard about it on the news,” she told The Post. “I heard them say they were having a sale, and I made a U-turn and came straight here.”
She estimated that she wound up spending more $1,000 – including $800 on a 10-foot tall imitation tree.
“Kimora owned it, that’s why I bought it,” she gushed, before her husband, who is in the auto business, drove up with a flat bed truck and took it away.
All the sales were cash only. One woman was spotted at the gate with a wad of $100 bills so huge that shopper Asha Darea gasped.
“She must have had $50,000,” the 42-year-old said.
The sale ground to a halt for a short time when security feared that someone had lifted a hair dryer, according to shopper Holly Homa.
