A month after Adidas reduce ties with Kanye West, he’s been accused of exhibiting porn to staff as an intimidation tactic – together with an alleged ‘express’ video of his then-wife, Kim Kardashian.
Kanye “Ye” Westallegedly “confirmed an intimate photograph ofKim Kardashianin job interviews” throughout his Yeezy partnership with Adidas, based on a brand new report by Rolling Stone. Within the month since Adidas severed ties with West, 45, over his antisemitic feedback, RS experiences that greater than two dozen former Yeezy and Adidas staffers have come forth to accuse the disgraced rapper of utilizing “thoughts video games,” pornography, and bullying as a approach to exert management over the workers.
One such alleged incident occurred in 2018 when West met with a “younger inventive” who thought of the assembly a job interview. After discovering Ye “dancing round to his personal music on full blast,” the younger inventive allegedly watched as Ye pulled out his cellular phone. “My spouse simply despatched me this,” West stated, based on the inventive, who instructed RS that it was a “very revealing and private” photograph of Kim Kardashian. RS additionally claims that no less than one different time in 2018, “West confirmed an express video of Kardashian to members of the inventive staff at Yeezy, based on an individual who says they noticed the video.”
The report claims that Ye cited porn as an inspirational device. Ye allegedly instructed the Yeezy workers “on a couple of event” that in the event that they have been ever “caught creatively, simply watch porn for 10 minutes.”
HollywoodLife has reached out to Kanye’s reps for remark. Adidas issued an announcement to RS, saying that the model “won't talk about non-public conversations, particulars, or occasions that lead [sic] to our determination to terminate the Adidas Yeezy partnership and decline to touch upon any associated hypothesis.”
The alleged habits described within the report matches one thing West shared in October. Ye printed a 30-minute documentary, together with a scene the place he allegedly confirmed an express film to a high-ranking Adidas member to explain how he was going to be “your worst nightmare.” Ye instructed the executives within the video, “What you’re feeling proper now's excessive discomfort, and that's precisely the purpose.”
Rolling Stone additionally experiences that “a revelatory, open letter by distinguished former members of the Yeezy staff insists that leaders from Adidas have been conscious of West’s ‘problematic habits’ however “turned their ethical compass off.” A number of former high-ranking Yeezy staff despatched the letter on Tuesday to the Adidas govt board members and the newly put in CEO. RS claims to have obtained the letter, which reads, “[Ye] has, in years previous, exploded at girls within the room with offensive remarks and would resort to sexually disturbing references when offering design suggestions.”
“I by no means checked out porn with him or something like that, however we'd have a look at issues collectively that perhaps could be shocking to folks,” Pete Fox, who served as president of Yeezy in 2016, instructed Rolling Stone. Fox was the one one that agreed to go on the file together with his identify for the RS article. “In excessive trend, there’s quite a lot of attractive, controversial issues that perhaps they reference or have a look at, versus an organization like Adidas the place you'll by no means present any nudity in a temper board,” he stated.
Nonetheless, many former staffers accused West of enjoying “thoughts video games” at Yeezy. He allegedly made a younger feminine designer of colour sit on the ground for a gathering that lasted for hours. “‘You don’t deserve to take a seat on the desk,’” West allegedly stated.
“No marvel why he didn’t need senior enterprise managers within the room,” the open letter alleges, per RS. “He wished to proceed to make use of his energy to violate you in a quiet manner and threaten your function and existence inside the staff.”
Ye and Kim have been collectively from the early 2010s till Kim filed for divorce in February 2021.