Kanye West wife Bianca Censori was accused of showing pornographic material to minors in a new lawsuit.
July 1, 2024, published at 6:45 PM ET
Kanye West woman, Bianca Censoriwas accused of exposing minors to pornographic material in a new lawsuit against Yeezy LLC and the company’s former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos.
In court documents obtained by RadarOnline.comEight people who worked on the Yeezy app YZYVSN claimed they were exposed to a hostile work environment “characterized by extreme racism and bullying, and exposure to inappropriate content.”
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The lawsuit was filed on June 29 against West, Yeezy LLC, and the company’s former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos.
Shemar DaCosta filed the federal lawsuit on his own behalf on June 29, Pholoso Mofokeng, Miles Jackson-Lea, Olakunle Olatunjiand four children aged 14, 15, 16 and 17. They were among 30 developers, designers and marketers hired in April to create the app, which was used to promote West’s albums. Vultures And Vultures 2.
The group claimed to have been exposed to “tough working conditions,” such as long hours and unreasonable deadlines, while working remotely from locations around the world, receiving guidance from Yeezy staffers like Yiannopoulos via a group chat on Discord.
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The lawsuit accused Censori of exposing the underage employees to hardcore pornographic images for YZY Porn.
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The app developers — including the minors on the team — were also assigned to work on Yeezy’s new pornographic venture, YZY Porn, the lawsuit said. On April 27, Censori allegedly “sent a YZYVSN employee a file-sharing link featuring hardcore pornography for the Yeezy Porn app.”
“No guardrails are in place to prevent the underage YZYVSN employees from working on Yeezy Porn, or to prevent them from being exposed to and forced to view pornography in order to perform their jobs,” the complaint states.
Yiannopoulos told it TMZ The explosive allegations against West’s wife were “offensive, disgusting, abhorrent and completely false,” the newspaper said, paraphrasing Yeezy’s former chief of staff, who claimed he was authorized to comment on Censori’s behalf.
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He also called DaCosta a “tragic, desperate, attention-seeking wannabe Yeezy staffer” who had no chance of getting a job at the company because of the “odious lies” about “the Lady of the House,” referring to Censori.
The lawsuit further alleged that the group chats were also “filled with harassment related to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and national origin/ethnicity.”
“Black and African members of the development team, including plaintiffs DaCosta, Olatunji and Mofokeng, were mocked on Discord Channel for their skin color, national origin and ethnicity and referred to as ‘slaves,’” the filing said.
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Kanye wanted to develop YZYVSN to promote his albums ‘Vulture’ and ‘Vulture 2’.
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Until the app was ready on May 2, workers claimed they were “regularly and viciously bullied because of their age, race, gender, sexual orientation and national origin/ethnicity,” and “threatened that if they did not agree to work for long hours without breaks, they would not get paid.”
“In several cases, the [employees] were forced to work all night in 12-hour shifts and forgo sleep,” the complaint alleged, adding that this negatively impacted the minor employees’ “education, school attendance and personal time.”
During a particularly busy week, “each of the plaintiffs, including the minors, worked long, hard hours every day without pay,” they said.
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Yiannopoulos denied allegations that he exposed minors to pornographic material on behalf of Censori.
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The workers are said to have “suffered threats, coercive intimidation and intimidation for demanding their wages. [been] held hostage, even though it is legally owed.”
The group is seeking damages for unpaid wages, as well as for anxiety, depression and other “health complications” requiring doctor visits, “caused by the stress of working conditions.”
Yiannopoulos denied the allegations of a hostile work environment and disparaging language from white managers, according to TMZ.