According to a new lawsuit filed by a former employee, Kanye “Y” West wanted to be jailed for putting students in “cages” at his private school, Donda Academy.
Donda Academy, a Christian K-12 school in Sammy Valley, Calif.—named after West’s late mother, Professor Donda West—states on its website that its mission is to “build students into the next generation of leaders.” to prepare for.”
However, the school has been mired in controversy since its 2022 start. In October 2022, the principal of Donda Academy, Jason Engel, said in an email that the school was closing abruptly. It reopened soon after. Although the new lawsuit says the school eventually closed in August 2023, it also says that “to the best of knowledge and belief, Donda Academy continues to operate as of today.”
West compared himself to Adolf Hitler, and showed preferential treatment to white staff members, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Yeezy and former Donna Academy staff Trevor Phillips.
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Phillips, who joins a number of other former employees suing West, alleges that when she began working with the rapper in November 2022, it was “immediately apparent” that the star had black employees. treated much worse than white employees. West, the lawsuit states, “would yell at and hit black employees, while never raising his voice at white employees.”
At the time Phillips joined the company, West faced backlash and financial losses for what he did on social media and in interviews. A number of businesses cut ties with him as a result, including sportswear giant Adidas, which had worked with West on its Yeezy sneaker collections since 2015.
Adidas was already reviewing its relationship with West even before his posts on X, formerly Twitter. The company launched a review in October 2022 after West wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his Yeezy brand fashion show and publicly criticized Adidas. Forbes It was reported at the time that your net worth dropped from $2 billion to $400 million due to the end of the business relationship.
According to Phillips’ lawsuit, West made similar anti-Semitic comments during the time he worked for the musician. West, Phillips said, threatened to target the LGBTQ+ community, allegedly saying that “gays are controlled by Bill Gates so they don’t have children to control the population.”
Phillips alleges that some of West’s alleged rhetoric on such matters was shared with students at Donda Academy. At one point, the lawsuit says, West told the two children that he wanted them to “shave their heads and that he intended to put prison in the school—and that they might be put in cages.”
According to the lawsuit, Phillips has said that when she tried to counter some of the ideas West allegedly offered, the star “responded with brutality, constant harassment, humiliation, and with attempts to mentally control and destroy”.
“Kanye’s misbehavior with Plaintiff ultimately culminated in a profanity-laced beating in front of school children and their parents,” the lawsuit states. “Kanye also threatened Phillips with physical violence.”
Phillips was drafted as a member of what West called a “vertically integrated crew.” Initially, his role was to oversee projects related to “using cotton and other plants as materials” for Yeezy projects. However, Phillips has said that his job will soon include work at Donda Academy.
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According to Phillips, she was promised a salary of $100 an hour, although she was reportedly paid significantly less for her role, which required her to be on call at all hours of the day. It was described as a need to live. Some payments were also delayed after Yeezy’s bank accounts were frozen amid West’s fallout with Adidas. The suit alleges that Phillips sometimes received transfers from Donda Academy in exchange for work from Yeezy.
West is alleged to have told Phillips in January 2023 that he wanted him to convert a run-down church to be used as the new Donada Academy campus after the original site’s landlord sold rapper Sam Broke the lease on hostile comments. Phillips has said that he and his team “were given weeks to complete the renovation without any permits.” Phillips alleges that the project was later dropped after the project’s legality and safety were questioned.
Elsewhere, the lawsuit alleges that at school meetings West threatened to fire any employee who became overweight, saying he “only likes to date white women.” And he is accused of allegedly taking $2 million from the Donda Academy budget. Paris.
Phillips also accused West of meeting at the Nobu Hotel in Malibu, where the star reportedly praised Nazi leader Hitler—”Hitler was great. Hitler was an innovator! He invented a lot of things.” “That’s why we have cars,” West said, according to the lawsuit — and questioned the authenticity of the Holocaust: “It was fake.” He is also accused of saying that “homosexual people are not true Christians.” Another time in a text message to Phillips, West allegedly compared himself to Hitler, “minus the gas chambers”.
During his time at the hotel, the venue staff entered the room and played the movie 2022 Batman, which Phillips says the two men watched in silence. Phillips alleges that West lay down on the bed and “made slow, downward motions with his hand just above her genitals as if he was masturbating.” According to the lawsuit, West also allegedly talked about his sex life at the time.
According to the lawsuit, West allegedly made a video call to a woman while they were at the hotel, asking her to wear lingerie and shoes he had previously bought for her. Phillips said he “immediately recognized the woman’s name because just a few weeks earlier, while at Yeezy headquarters, Kanye had shown her nude photos to several members of Yeezy’s staff.”
Phillips alleges West fired her in front of dozens of people during a Sunday service session at the school in May 2023. The lawsuit states that West was angry over the garden issue. Phillips says that after she tearfully replied that her daughter attended Donda Academy, and that she was grateful to have a job because of a medical condition, West allegedly humiliated the complainant and her daughter. While doing so, he shouted and cursed at him.
After the alleged incident, Phillips said he continued to work for West until August 2023, when he says the Donda Academy closed. Among other claims, Phillips — who alleges discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination — is seeking more than $35,000 in damages.
In December, Maghrib issued a Hebrew-language apology for his anti-Semitic comments, in a since-deleted message that read: “I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community… It was not my intention to offend or humiliate. It was not, and I deeply regret any inconvenience it may have caused.
“I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.” “
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