Kanye West routinely shared pornographic photographs and movies of ex-wife Kim Kardashian with Yeezy and Adidas workers in an try and intimidate them, an explosive report has claimed.
It alleges {that a} younger male who was interviewing for a job at Yeezy was proven an ‘intimate’ picture of Kardashian by West simply after it arrived on his cellphone, whereas an ‘express’ video of the fact star was proven to a number of co-workers
An open letter from former members of West’s Yeezy style model additionally accuses Adidas bosses of turning ‘their ethical compass off’ amid the self-confessed porn addict’s alleged behavior of displaying express materials across the workplace.
Plenty of damning claims within the report revealed by Rolling Stone say that West culminated a ‘sexualized’ ambiance by which pornography was a relentless characteristic, and sometimes made express remarks to feminine Yeezy and Adidas staffers.
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West informed a feminine Adidas worker in China ‘I need you to make me a shoe I can f*ck,’ whereas he additionally typically performed porn movies to colleagues – together with home-made movies of himself and former spouse Kardashian – the report claims.
Yeezy was a multi-billion-dollar style collaboration between West and Adidas which was terminated in October following a variety of public anti-semantic rants from the musician.
The open letter was despatched by former Yeezy workers to Adidas executives on Tuesday, accusing West of cultivating a ‘poisonous and chaotic’ work atmosphere, in addition to ‘a really sick sample of predacious habits towards girls,’ Rolling Stone reported.
The publication additionally acquired a number of claims of incidents by which West appeared to make use of pornography as a device to bully and intimidate employees, together with incidents by which he would play pornography throughout conferences.
Former Yeezy president Pete Fox informed Rolling Stone: ‘Steve Jobs or Elon Musk … they have been accountable to shareholders; Kanye one hundred pc owns his manufacturers – he can do no matter he needs, and we’re simply there to serve at his pleasure.’
In 2019, West admitted to being a porn addict, saying: ‘For me, Playboy was my gateway into full on pornography dependancy. My dad had a Playboy overlooked at age 5 and it is affected virtually each alternative I made for the remainder of my life.
‘From age 5 until now, having to kick the behavior and it simply presents itself within the open prefer it’s OK and I get up and say, ‘No, it is not OK’.’
A video was shared by West final month apparently displaying him sharing a porn film on his cellphone with Adidas execs.
Within the 30-minute lengthy video, the rapper meets with Adidas executives whose faces are blurred out.
West could possibly be seen assembly in a plain room surrounded by males on stools, apparently carrying Adidas sneakers, as he reveals them one thing on his cellphone.
Finally one of many males asks: ‘Is that this a porn film?’ to which West responds, ‘Yeah.’
Quickly, the manager tries to swipe Kanye’s hand away and tells him to ‘come on.’
Following the termination of his Yeezy partnership, West might lose his billionaire standing after additionally being dropped by a variety of different companions, together with Hole and Balenciaga.
His cope with Adidas was price round $1.5 billion a yr, netting the star round $220 million yearly.
He claimed final month to have misplaced a masssive $2 billion in a single day after corporations started to sever ties with him following his racist remarks made on-line.
Discussing the backlash, West insisted that ‘cash will not be who I’m’ as he penned a ‘love letter’ to Hollywood tremendous agent Ari Emanuel, who had referred to as for West to be dropped by all main manufacturers.
In a put up captioned ‘LOVE SPEECH’, he penned: ‘Ari Emanuel, I misplaced 2 billion {dollars} in in the future and I’m nonetheless alive. That is love speech. I nonetheless love you. God nonetheless loves you. The cash will not be who I’m. The folks is who I’m.’
In an op-ed for the Monetary Instances, Endeavor co-CEO Emanuel wrote that there ought to be ‘no tolerance wherever for West’s anti-Semitism’ and inspired manufacturers to absolutely stop partnering and dealing with the designer.
‘Apple and Spotify, which host West’s music, whoever organizes West’s excursions, and Adidas, which collaborates with West on his style line, ought to all cease working with him,’ wrote Emanuel – primarily calling for a blacklisting.
Earlier this week, after having his Twitter account reinstated following a ban for his anti-semantic remarks, West introduced he could be promoting leftover Yeezy, Balenciaga and Adidas garments for $20, ‘so everybody can afford high quality garments.’
In footage posted on-line, West seems virtually joyful as he stands in a workspace that appears to be the host of an upcoming pattern sale.
West’s Twitter account was restored on Tuesday, following the corporate’s current takeover by Elon Musk.