The rapper Kanye West He has still not stopped facing serious accusations from his former employees when new testimonies come forward to denounce the artist claiming to be victims of abuse. In April of this year, the man now known as ‘Ye’ was sued by a former employee who claimed to have suffered “severe discrimination, harassment and direct retaliation” by the rapper, whom he also accused of being racist, homophobic and again anti-Semitic. In addition to witnessing how he praised the Nazi leader and uttered “frantic screams at black people,” the rapper preached in fashionable places that launched messages such as “the Jews want to finish me” or “the Jews steal all my money,” which in Other occasions have already cost him cancellations of advertising contracts with sports brands.
But these discriminatory and inappropriate attitudes are not the only ones with which Kanye West is judicially linked. Several months ago, his former assistant Lauren Pisciotta She sued him for sexual and workplace harassment, also pointing out that the artist had transformed the work environment into a “sexual playground” full of parties and intimate encounters. The recent update on the case included an allegation of sexual assault and Pisciotta’s claim that she was drugged by the rapper to exert his power over her. Faced with the accusations, ‘Ye’ wanted to publicly deny them, calling them blackmail to go against him and tarnish his image.
But far from moving away from the media scandal, an alleged new victim of the rapper’s abuse has filed a complaint alleging a possible assault committed more than a decade ago with which the musician is once again at the center of the controversy. Now the model Jenn An He presented the necessary legal documents to process the accusation this Friday in the Federal Court of New York, a new case that opens and rescues episodes from the past that the artist, who contributed to his being forgotten, will have to face.
This is how the events occurred
According to the former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant, the events occurred in 2010 during the filming of the video clip for ‘In for the Kill’ by the group ‘La Roux’ at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. In the complaint shared by the ‘TMZ’ portal, the model says that she was at the hotel for the recording of the music video with a group of girls who were also going to participate. As the documents indicate, Kanye West, who was not part of the production, entered the scene and forced the crew to bring him the “Asian girl.” But then, being around the artist ended up being an abusive situation that “seemed more like a scene of fetish violence than art,” in An’s words.
She, dressed in lingerie, was placed in front of West and he forced the camera crew to focus on the young woman’s face while he began to strangle her with his hands. Afterwards, the rapper would have inserted “several fingers down her throat, continuously moving them in and out,” a practice that the complainant has compared to a BDSM fetish act that simulated “forced oral sex.” With her face completely immobilized, the young woman assures that far from stopping, the artist proudly shouted that “this is fucking art.” “I’m like Picasso.” According to the model, the scene that crossed the limits of gender violence was not part of the final montage of the video clip, but that at that time she was struggling to breathe and even lost consciousness while Kanye continued perpetrating the aggression.
As the official version points out, no one intervened to stop the scene. In her complaint, the model also includes the record company Universal Music Group, which organized the musician’s participation in the filming, and the agency Stink Digital United States for violating the Law for Protection against Gender Violence by not having applied “a code of conduct nor knowing that West was capable of sexually assaulting her. In the victim’s statement, which alleges psychological damage, the team tried to “bury” what happened to avoid a scandal by avoiding taking action. Now, with her complaint, Jenn seeks financial compensation and punitive compensation from the artist. In a statement, he has publicly denounced the culture of abuse in the music industries. «Women in these sectors have been subjected to sexual abuse for years, without real possibilities to speak out or implement changes. This space is dangerous for women, who are seen as objects. “We survivors of sexual assault have nothing,” she said.
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