Kanye West has so far ignored the lawsuit – now he has received a fine for his silence.
A judge in Los Angeles sentenced Kanye West to a fine of $ 2,560 and obliged the rapper to testify under oath by April 30 at the latest. The background is a lawsuit against the musician in which he is accused of facing employees and students of his Donda Academy with racist and homophobic tirades and threats.
The plaintiff Trevor Phillips, a former employee, accuses Ye, among other things, anti -Semitic statements, preferred treatment of white employees and inappropriate behavior. Among other things, Ye is said to have said: “Hitler was great. Hitler was an innovator! ” The plaintiff’s lawyer, Justin Shegerian, welcomed the decision and described Kanye West behavior as disregard for the legal system. In his discrimination and retribution lawsuits submitted last April, Phillips claimed: Ye had threatened to beat him, claims that he wanted to shave the heads of the Donda students and block them into a “cage” and he even masturbated in front of his eyes while the rapper “The Batman” looked without sound.
Kanye West must comment on the matter
After the hearing on Thursday (February 20), Phillips’s lawyer, Justin Shegerian, said that he was looking forward to “taking into account” the rapper with the new judicial order. Shegerian’s law firm represents four of more than a dozen former employees who have sued YE and his companies in the past three years.
“It is clear that he either does not take our civil law system seriously or run away from the claims of our clients,” said Shegerian, according to “Rolling Stone”. When asked what he thinks of Kanye West’s post on the platform X on Wednesday, in which it was said: “After further considerations, I got to realize that I am not a Nazi,” said the lawyer that he did not believe Ye . “Throughout the week before, he said that he was a Nazi. I think it is quite clear to the general public and us, just as the evidence in the cases submitted by us show that he firmly believes in the anti -Semitic disposal that he expresses, be it against his employees or the public “, Says Shegerian.
Most recently, the musician had also provided further scandals by selling a T-shirt with a swastika and publishing controversial contributions on platform X. Among other things, this meant that his talent agency dropped him.