Kanye West is dealing with yet one more lawsuit, and this time the Yeezy mogul is being sued for breach of contract by a former worker.
Based on TMZ, the controversial rapper and producer has been hit with a $275,000 breach of contract declare by a former Yeezy staffer.
Within the go well with filed Friday (March 31), Dora Szilagyi claims she was employed to be the Director of Product Innovation for the Yeezy model in June 2021.
Nevertheless, she alleges West wished her to stop her job at adidas and work for him full-time — and that she was promised a severance cost of $275,000 if she was fired with out trigger after September 2021.
When she was fired in mid-December 2021, Szilagyi claims she by no means acquired the promised severance cost. “Dora says she doesn’t imagine Kanye or his firm ever supposed to comply with by means of on the severance bundle and solely dangled it to lure her from Adidas,” TMZ reviews.
This lawsuit is simply the newest in an extended line of authorized troubles for the Kanye West. In December 2022, he was hit with a $110,000 lawsuit from Katelyn Mooney, a Brooklyn-based artistic director, after he allegedly did not pay her for a last-minute photograph shoot again in September.
Based on a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom on December 7, 2022, Mooney mentioned she was contacted by Kanye West’s staff and requested to shoot his SHDZ designer sun shades to make use of for advertising at New York Style Week.
The shoot reportedly came about on September 13, 2022, and Mooney delivered the ultimate digital recordsdata the next day (September 14). Nevertheless, she claims she by no means acquired cost for her efforts.
Additionally in December 2022, it was revealed that Yeezy’s Los Angeles places of work have been underneath menace of eviction after lacking two months of lease funds totaling greater than $60,000.
CT Calabasas, the corporate that owns the workplace constructing, issued a requirement to West to pay the lease inside 72 hours or face eviction.
Along with reportedly owing over $600,000 in unpaid taxes, Kanye West grew to become the goal of an inner investigation by adidas in November 2022 after an explosive investigative report by Rolling Stone reported the mogul commonly confirmed pornography to colleagues.
The report claimed that Ye confirmed an express image of his then-wife Kim Kardashian to a possible collaborator and an express video of her to his Yeezy workers.
Moreover, the report additionally discovered that Kanye West allegedly instructed individuals he wished to make “a shoe I can fuck,” with one worker recalling West saying a number of occasions: “I actually need to fuck my footwear that’s how good they’re.”
adidas confirmed in a press release that an investigation is at the moment underway.