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The former Yeezy marketing specialist who claims Kanye West subjected her to “antisemitic vitriol,” sexual harassment, and retaliation was awarded $76,245 in attorneys’ fees Friday for her victory over West’s early attempt to dismiss her lawsuit on free speech grounds. A California judge awarded the fees at a morning hearing …

A former Yeezy staffer who says Kanye West subjected her to a “calculated campaign” of antisemitic and sexual harassment says she was forced to spend nearly $100,000 in legal fees fighting his failed attempt to dismiss her lawsuit – and he should be on the hook for the full amount. …

After cutting ties with Kanye West following the rapper’s abhorrent antisemitic comments in October 2022, Adidas has finally offloaded the last of its Yeezy stock. “There is not one Yeezy shoe left,” said Adidas chief financial officer Harm Ohlmeyer, following the company’s earnings report on Wednesday. “It has all been …

Kanye West got in trouble with a judge Thursday for ducking his deposition in a lawsuit alleging he subjected staff and students to bigoted rants and threats at his ill-fated Donda Academy school. At a court hearing in downtown Los Angeles, Judge Thomas Long ordered the rapper, who now goes …

Kanye West and his Yeezy company have been accused of mistreating several staff members — including bullying and not paying a number of them while they worked on developing a streaming app earlier this year — in a new lawsuit filed Saturday, The Washington Post reports. Eight employees, including some …

Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden addressed Kanye West’s infamous deluge of antisemitic comments and dubious claims about George Floyd’s murder in a new interview, saying: “I don’t think he meant what he said.” Gulden made the comments during an interview on the In Good Company podcast last week. He did condemn …

Kanye West has involved Dov Charney — the controversial founder of American Apparel who’s been accused of sexual harassment by numerous women and printed West’s infamous “White Lives Matter” shirt — in his Yeezy business, Rolling Stone has learned. A source familiar with the situation tells Rolling Stone that Yeezy …

Adidas still hasn’t figured out what it’s going to do with the $1.3 billion of unsold Yeezy stock it yanked after terminating its partnership with Kanye West over his string of antisemitic rants last year. As The Associated Press reports, new Adidas CEO Bjorn Gulden addressed the issue in a …

A HUSH FELL OVER the factory sample room in Qingyuan, China, as Kanye West examined the prototypes of his latest Yeezy sneakers on display before him. Decision-makers from Adidas and members of his entourage waited intently for his feedback when, according to two people who attended the August 2017 meeting, …

Adidas will launch a probe into allegations that Kanye West played pornography to employees, according to the company. The investigation into the rapper, which was first reported by the Financial Times, comes two days after a scathing article from Rolling Stone found that the problematic mogul showed pornography to prospective …