Kanye West sued for sexual harassment
West's ex-assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, is suing the rapper for sexual harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination
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Every allegation against Kanye West is somehow more disturbing than the last. The latest suit against the disgraced rapper comes from his former assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, who details a distressing pattern of sexual harassment over the course of the one year she worked on season one of his Yeezy women’s fashion line and collaborated on his Donda album, from 2021 until 2022. (According to the BBC, Pisciotta does not have any formal credits on the record.) The court documents were reviewed by Rolling Stone.
Pisciotta says she met West in 2021, during which time he offered her a $1 million salary to be his “Executive Assistant/Personal Assistant,” on the condition that she be available to him “24-7.” At the time, Pisciotta claims she was making around $1 million annually on OnlyFans, which West was okay with at first. Eventually, however, he allegedly asked her to delete the account in exchange for $1 million, because he wanted her to be “God like.” This is when the alleged harassment started.
According to the filing, West then began to send his employee a barrage of sexually explicit text messages and occasionally masturbated while discussing work-related matters on the phone with her. Per Rolling Stone, some of these graphic messages read as follows:
“See my problem is I be wanting to fuck but then after I fuck I want a girl to tell me how hard they been fucked while I’m fucking them… Then I want her to cheat on me.”
“Is my dick racist?… I’m going to stare at pictures of white woman with black asses and beat the shit out of my racist dick.”
Pisciotta also claims that West was “fixated on the penis size” of her boyfriends and once sent a video of himself having sex with a model. She was also asked to deliver a sexual enhancement “honey” before his sexual encounters.
In a further escalation, Pisciotta alleges that once on an overnight flight to Paris with other Yeezy employees present, West locked the two of them in his room on the plane (the door could not be opened from the inside), where he proceeded to lie down on his bed and masturbate under the covers, while Pisciotta sat down in a chair across from him.
Pisciotta is also suing for a $3 million severance package which she says she never received after she was fired in 2022. Overall, the filing alleges sexual harassment, breach of contract, wrongful termination, fraud, unpaid wages, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
This is far from the first allegation leveled at West from his time at Yeezy, which was formally dropped by Adidas in 2022. In a lengthy New York Times report from 2023, former staffers detailed a decade of harassment, including West drawing swastikas on shoes and telling a Jewish staffer to “hang a photo of Hitler in his kitchen and kiss it every day to practice unconditional love.” In 2022, Rolling Stone also published a report alleging that West regularly played hardcore porn in meetings, and showed interviewees explicit content featuring his then-wife, Kim Kardashian.
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What? No! Not Kanye! I don’t believe it!Oh wait, Kanye West? That guy? I was thinking of someone else. Yeah, that does sound believable for him.
Seriously, my dentist Kanye Perkins is such a nice guy and this would have been really upsetting.
Whew, thought it was Kanye Jones. He works at the coffee shop down the street. Nice guy. Thinking of changing his name…
He could just try “Ye”. That has a nice ring to it.
Sometimes you read something somebody is accused of and you think no way they did that. This is not one of those times
“Sexual enhancement ‘honey’” was actually her job title…
He is so fucking manic. Yes of course you can’t blame the behavior on the bipolar, it’s all yes men, obscene wealth, toxic culture, etc. But actually given that and the removal of any guard rails or accountability, he’s like a case study of totally uncontrolled manic behavior. This thing has occurred to me so Ima DO this thing! No consequences considered and none forthcoming. Take your meds dude. You’ll still be a dick but at least you might be a moderately controlled (racist) dick.
Why don’t these men hire male assistants?
I remember the last time I suggested that here and the pushback was actually gross. The sentiment was basically “Why would a man want that job. Ew, that would make him, like, gay or something.” That was the implication.
It seems obvious to me why these famous men want a woman serving them. Eventually they’ll want the women to service them. That’s gross.
As a guy who works in female-dominated fields, I’m glad you didn’t gender who’s pushing back.
I can’t determine the gender of anyone here unless they reveal that. Whoever they are seemed to think that a man working for another man in this capacity was weird or unacceptable in some way.
The problem is that they hire them off instagram or onlyfans
You know why.
Cus they ain’t gay, dude!
I think the fact the main qualification of this particular assistant was that she was a successful Only Fans model answers that question.
Speaking from experience, men make lousy assistants compared to women. Yeah, it’s a by-product of the patriarchy, but what am I supposed to do? Hire the less qualified applicant?
Does he have a giant penis?
I think I’d prefer they hire the most qualified person, regardless of gender, and just, y’know, not sexually harass them. Why should a woman lose out on a lucrative job because of behaviour that shouldn’t happen in the first place?
A woman shouldn’t lose out on a lucrative job and this shouldn’t happen, but it keeps happening. I wouldn’t do this work for anyone without a carefully written contract and a lot of ground rules. A few people are replying that she was hired because of an OnlyFans account. These comments sound “neutral” enough but the implication seems to be “she was asking for it.”
Not surprising. If anything, given what we know about Kanye, I’m surprised it took so long for this particular shoe to drop.
We’ve been watching Kanye West’s anti-semitism flavored breakdown fueled by his mental instability for so long, that we just kind of forgot about the vastly more common sexual improprieties that usually knock wealthy famous men off their pedestals.
“common sexual improprieties that usually knock wealthy famous men off their pedestals”Ah yes, the before times.
Sigh. Dude needs to jump into a wood chipper already.
Not a completely unhinged response at all. Nope.
i’d like some more info on this mysterious sexual enhancing honey please.
It’s made by extremely horny bees.
You mean “hornets”?
I figured it would come from the scariest bees of all…BOO-bies!
“Is my dick racist?… I’m going to stare at pictures of white woman with black asses and beat the shit out of my racist dick.”Is he talking about PAWGs, or white women who have literally painted their asses the colour black?
Calling people “PAWGs,” aka a porn keyword, in normal conversation is actually weirder than what he said.
I’m sorry, do you prefer “whootie”?This is an article about how Kanye hired a camgirl to be his personal assistant and then texted her his philosophical musings about the porn he’s jacking it to. Nothing about this is normal.
I prefer anything that isn’t a porn keyword to refer to people, yeah.
Um, no.
the former.
If ever a career cried out for a tragic overdose!
Yeah but enough about you
TBF, “is my dick racist” is pretty funny.
You just think that bc you’re fucking stupid.
Louis C.K. and Adam Levine reading about these allegations, going, “Damn, what a demented freak.”
Those poor gay fish.
A million bucks per year for OnlyFans? Man, I wish I was attractive and comfortable with my body.