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Ye barraged a former Jewish female employee with a slew of antisemitic and sexist comments, including calling himself a Nazi and making degrading comments about her appearance, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
In the Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, the anonymous plaintiff alleged that shortly after she was hired in December 2023 as a marketing specialist for the designer formerly known as Kanye West, he “carried out a calculated campaign to threaten and psychologically torment Jewish people around him,” eventually leading to her wrongful termination nearly six months later.
In January 2024, the plaintiff alleged that when she suggested Ye condemn ties to Nazism after his “Vultures 1” album stirred controversy for “cover art resembling a Nazi aesthetic,” he responded, “I Am A NAZI” in a message. In June 2024, he allegedly sent her a string of texts, including one calling her “ugly,” another declaring “Hail Hitler” and another saying “You what’s left after I said deathcon” – referring to his 2022 tweet threatening to go “death con 3” on Jewish people.
The plaintiff also accused Ye of denigrating women, including texting a picture of a nude woman in a group chat in January 2024 and directing her to help market Yeezy Porn in April 2024, which she refused.
The anonymous former staffer said that she was later fired in June, the day after reporting Ye’s harassment to her manager.
“Ye waged a relentless and deliberate campaign of antisemitism and misogyny against my client. His appalling treatment of women and fixation on Nazism, evident in abusive texts where he repeatedly calls himself Hitler, expose his motives,” the plaintiff’s lawyer Carney Shegerian wrote in a statement. “We need to stop excusing Ye’s behaviour. As a father, husband, and employer, he must be held accountable. Ye dared my client to sue, and we will see him in court.”
The lawsuit is the latest in a series of complaints filed against Ye over the past year by former staffers, alleging a hostile work environment, unpaid wages, sexual harassment and physical and sexual assault, among other claims. It also comes two days after the rapper aired a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to his website, where he was selling one item: a $20 T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika.
The commercial, which aired in major local TV markets including Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta, featured Ye apparently filming himself on an iPhone as he sits in a dentist’s chair. “I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth,” he explains, flashing a mouth full of jewel-encrusted teeth before prompting viewers to visit his online store, yeezy.com.
The site, which is powered by e-commerce platform Shopify, was taken down Tuesday morning and replaced with a message saying, “This store is unavailable.”
In a statement to The Post, a Shopify spokesperson said, “This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify.”
Days before the Super Bowl, Ye launched a fresh tirade of antisemitic attacks on X, reigniting his years-long history of spouting such rhetoric on the platform – and he thanked X owner Elon Musk for “allowing” him to vent.
X, formerly known as Twitter, was purchased by the billionaire in 2022 with the aim of restoring free speech and combating censorship – a Republican-led push bolstered in recent months by Donald Trump’s election, prompting other tech giants like Meta to reevaluate their speech policies.
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In response to a users’s complaint on Friday about Ye’s posts, Musk said that the rapper’s page “is now classified as NSFW.” By Sunday, Ye appeared to have deactivated his own account.
Following news of the staffer’s lawsuit on Tuesday, talent agency 33&West announced it was no longer representing Ye, according to Variety.
In 2022, the rapper’s empire took a major hit as several companies – including Adidas, Gap, Balenciaga, JPMorgan Chase, talent agency CAA and Hollywood financier and producer MRC – severed ties after he made a series of antisemitic comments. He later shared an apology in Hebrew on his Instagram page.