Music mogul RUSSELL SIMMONS has found a new love following his split from ex-wife Kimora Lee - he is dating French model NOEMIE LENOIR.

The hip-hop guru divorced the star in January (09) after ten years of marriage, and Lee has gone on to have a baby with her actor boyfriend Djimon Hounsou.

Now Simmons, 51, has also moved on from the relationship - he was photographed kissing 29-year-old Lenoir at a party in New York on Monday night (22Jun09).

The new couple has been using Simmons' GlobalGrind website to talk about their new romance, with Lenoir admitting, "I recently found someone and we’re happy and having fun."

Simmons has also been boasting about his new lover online, posting pictures of one of Lenoir's recent lingerie photoshoots on his Twitter.com page, and writing, "Wowowow. Damn she fine."

Simmons has two daughters from his marriage to Lee, while Lenoir is mother to a four-year-old son from a previous relationship.