Rapper Kanye West (Atlanta, Georgia, 46 years old), now renamed Ye, faces a new lawsuit. On this occasion, from a former assistant who alleges sexual harassment, breach of contract, unjustified dismissal and a hostile work environment, as noted on Monday, June 3, by the entertainment portal TMZ, who agreed to the demand, and that already collect and expand media from all over the world.
Lauren Pisciotta worked as the artist’s personal assistant between July 2021 and October 2022, when she was fired. According to the model, the rapper kicked her out of her job after sending her text messages and videos with sexual content. TMZ points out that Pisciotta was a model with a profile on OnlyFans (a subscription service where content creators, generally erotic or directly sexual, receive income from their subscribers) where she published photographs in bikinis and lingerie with which she had enormous success. , which led him to earn one million dollars a year. West met her at the time he had launched her clothing line and hired her, according to the aforementioned portal, which cites her legal document. Pisciotta also worked with the musician on three songs on his album Where.
According to the American media PageSix, Pisciotta went to work as West’s assistant for the sum of one million dollars a year, under the condition that he be available to the singer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Conditions that the assistant accepted. In July 2022, he asked her to delete her account from her OnlyFans, promising that in exchange he would pay her an extra million dollars a year, the same amount she was receiving through the platform, which She also accepted.
Shortly after that, according to the plaintiff, West began sending her off-color, vulgar or outright obscene text messages. Pisciotta relates that the rapper masturbated when they talked on the phone, and asked him if he was able to hear or guess what he was doing, according to TMZ. PageSix She even shares some of the messages she has had access to, in which West allegedly shared explicit messages of sexual fantasies he had with her and other women. According to the lawsuit reported by TMZ, there were a large number of text messages, sexual photographs and videos between the plaintiff and the defendant, in which the rapper shared videos in which he appeared having sexual relations with a model. Pisciotta also claims that he received from West intimate photographs of “current and former” employees of the company, which included both “men and women.”
Later, the artist appointed Pisciotta as chief of staff for his various companies, with a salary that already amounted to four million dollars, but in October 2022 he fired her. West offered her $3 million in compensation, which she accepted, and again—and according to the lawsuit—he never paid.
This latest lawsuit joins a long list that the rapper has received in recent years. Between 2023 and 2024, he began to accumulate complaints from the teaching staff who worked at his Donda Academy nursery school, located in Ventura, about 50 minutes from Los Angeles. As reported at the time by several media outlets that had access to the complaint, a former employee, named Isaiah Meadows, accused West of not paying him the promised salary and of unfairly dismissing him. The complaints were similar to those of the two teachers, Cecilia Hailey and Chekarey Byers, who sued West last April 2023, accusing him of lack of commitment in their payments, as well as racism, ensuring that, as the only two Black teachers at the center received lower salaries than their colleagues. Isaiah Meadows, a former physical education teacher, sued the rapper for “damages due to non-payments, loss of income and emotional distress,” among other issues. These lawsuits also revealed troubling issues regarding the operation of the artist’s studio, such as the lack of glass in the windows, since West apparently does not like glass, according to Meadows’ lawsuit. “The water soaked into the floor, which led to a musty smell for the following days,” the complaint reads. Additionally, the septic tanks were overflowing “causing terrible odors,” the plaintiff claimed. Furthermore, according to Professors Hailey and Byers, the Holocaust was not taught and “they wanted to suppress a lot of historical information.” There were prohibitions and restrictions on teaching: “They didn’t want students to know parts of the black or Asian history of our country.”
Outside of his own school, West also found himself in early 2024 in the middle of a legal dispute with Donna Summer’s children, who accused Ye of having falsified the 1977 hit without permission. I Feel Love —one of the American singer’s most popular songs—, using “recognizable parts” of the song in her theme Good (Don’t Die), all this after the heirs themselves had explicitly and in writing rejected their request to use it.
Another of the big headaches surrounding the rapper comes from one of his collaborations with Adidas, which he accuses of selling his popular Yeezy sneakers in colors that he never approved. The brand has sued the artist for his racist comments and is asking for compensation of $250 million for breaching the contract in question. West uploaded a photo wearing the sneakers to his networks along with a message in which he assured that “Anyone who loves Ye would not buy these fake Yeezys.”
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