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Kanye West is being sued by eight former workers over allegations of a hostile work setting, unpaid wages, discrimination and extra whereas growing a brand new app for the artist earlier this 12 months.
The rapper, 47, alongside together with his Yeezy model and former head of workers Milo Yiannopoulos, have been named in a lawsuit filed by the previous YZYVSN workers – a few of whom are minors – within the Central District Court docket in California on Saturday, June 29.
Within the submitting obtained by Us Weekly, the previous workers, whose ages vary from 14 to 25 and are from varied nations, alleged that they weren’t paid for lengthy working hours and have been subjected to harassment, together with being known as “slaves” and “new slaves” within the firm’s Discord channel. (Discord is an app during which customers can talk through voice calls, video calls, messaging and extra.)
In addition they claimed that the work setting was “hostile” as app builders on the staff have been allegedly bullied over their race, gender, age, sexual orientation and extra, in accordance with the swimsuit.
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Us Weekly has reached out to West’s staff for remark.
Moreover, the previous workers alleged they have been subjected to pornographic pictures within the office after West started touting the concept of grownup movie enterprise Yeezy Porn in April. The lawsuit claims that West’s spouse, Bianca Censori, “despatched a YZYVSN employee a file sharing hyperlink of hardcore pornography” for the app.
“No guardrails have been put in place to forestall the underaged YZYVSN employees from engaged on Yeezy Porn, or to forestall them from being uncovered to and being pressured to view pornography to carry out their work,” the swimsuit states.
Censori, 29, vehemently denied the allegations in an announcement given to Web page Six through Yiannopoulos, 39, on Monday.
“I’ve been approved by Bianca to emphasize that any allegation that she confirmed or brought about to be proven any pornographic materials to minors is offensive, disgusting, abhorrent and categorically and wholly false,” he informed the outlet.
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The lawsuit additionally claims that West and Yiannopoulos informed workers that they’d be paid upon completion of the app; nevertheless, not one of the plaintiffs obtained their wages.
Yiannopoulos responded to the submitting through X on June 29, writing in a sequence of posts that the “joke lawsuit” was filed by a “disgruntled” former worker who’s “mad he didn’t get chosen for a full-time Yeezy job.”
The workers are looking for fee for unpaid wages and lawyer charges, and damages for emotional misery.
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The lawsuit comes almost a month after West’s former assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, sued him for sexual harassment, hostile work setting and wrongful termination.
Along with Pisciotta’s allegations, West has additionally confronted a number of lawsuits for his college, the Donda Academy, relationship again to April 2023. A number of lecturers have alleged that the college has a number of well being and security violations, which they declare West has ignored.
On the time, an lawyer for West denied the claims and requested a decide to dismiss the lawsuit. “None of it’s true and the allegations do a disservice to the Donda Academy’s present workers and college students and their mother and father who will attest to their constructive expertise,” lawyer Gregory Suhr mentioned in courtroom docs obtained by NBC Information in June 2023.
