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Ye, the rapper previously generally known as Kanye West, is going through new allegations from a former private assistant.
Lauren Pisciotta, who labored for West from 2021 to 2023, has filed a second amended grievance in her lawsuit in opposition to the 48-year-old rapper after beforehand accusing him of sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
The brand new submitting, viewed by People, accuses West of sexual assault, battery, intercourse trafficking, stalking and false imprisonment, amongst different allegations.
Within the grievance, Pisciotta claims that “Ye subjected Ms. Pisciotta to obscene feedback about her physique, demanded she put on tight becoming clothes, groped her regularly, compelled her to look at Ye carry out sexual acts with different girls, despatched her sexually specific footage and demanded she do the identical, and repeatedly demanded that she be a part of his sexual encounters, which she refused.”
The submitting additionally alleges that West as soon as “tried to vaginally penetrate Ms. Pisciotta along with his fingers” and “orally raped her with out her consent” whereas she was employed by him.
A authorized consultant for West previously told Rolling Stone that Pisciotta was “terminated for being unqualified, demanding unreasonable sums of cash (together with a $4 million annual wage) and quite a few documented incidents of her lascivious, unhinged conduct.” The rep additionally denied her “baseless” allegations and accused the previous worker of “blackmail and extortion.”
Pisciotta’s newest submitting additionally accuses West of forcibly kissing her on the mouth and forcibly grabbing her by the throat. It additionally alleges that West “provided somebody the chance to have intercourse” with Pisciotta “in trade for permitting Ye to have intercourse with” that individual’s vital different.
The grievance additional accuses the rapper of intercourse trafficking, alleging that he made “fraudulent guarantees of profession development” in trade for sexual acts.
“Ye terrorized and dominated his worker, Ms. Pisciotta’s life for roughly two years,” the authorized doc stated, “all beneath the pretense of providing critical profession development alternatives within the music and vogue trade.”
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The submitting additionally claims that after Pisciotta filed her authentic grievance in 2024, West allegdly employed a person to “SWAT” her, which includes participating emergency providers with false calls so as to enact revenge on a person or group by inflicting armed police SWAT groups to reply to a state of affairs considering there may be an lively shooter or harmful state of affairs on the scene.
“Inside roughly one week of submitting her authentic summons and grievance on this motion, Ms. Pisciotta was bombarded with undesirable, harassing, and alarming visits from legislation enforcement and authorities companies who claimed to be investigating numerous reviews, reminiscent of baby abuse, and searched her dwelling and private results,” the submitting reads.
Pisciotta is requesting basic damages to be decided by trial, previous and future earnings in an quantity decided at trial, attorneys’ charges, punitive and exemplary damages and no matter aid “the Court docket might deem correct.”
The brand new submitting marks the newest authorized drama West faces, including to a rising listing of controversies surrounding the rapper.
Earlier this month, West was barred from entering Australia following the discharge of his pro-Nazi music Heil Hitler.
Dwelling Affairs Minister Tony Burke stated West had been travelling for years to Australia, the place his spouse, Bianca Censori, was born. Her household lives in Melbourne.
Burke stated Heil Hitler promotes Nazism. The music, launched in Could, has been criticized as an antisemitic tribute to German dictator Adolf Hitler. It’s additionally been banned in Germany and from on-line platforms together with Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify.
The music features a direct pattern from a speech Hitler gave in 1935 and repeats the slogan hailing the German dictator.
“He’s been coming to Australia for a very long time. He’s received household right here. And he’s made numerous offensive feedback that my officers checked out once more as soon as he launched the Heil Hitler music and he not has a legitimate visa in Australia,” Burke told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“When you’re going to have a music and promote that type of Nazism, we don’t want that in Australia,” Burke added. “We’ve sufficient issues on this nation already with out intentionally importing bigotry.”
— with recordsdata from World Information
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