By Variety | Created at 2024-11-15 02:33:33 | Updated at 2024-11-15 06:02:23
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Kanye West told an employee that his ex-wife Kim Kardashian has “Jewish masters,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
The producer and rapper, who also goes by Ye, was also accused in the lawsuit of keeping the employee waiting on two separate occasions while he loudly had sex in an adjacent room.
Murphy Aficionado, a project manager, began working for West in October 2022, and was responsible for overseeing a variety of construction projects. According to the suit, he was not paid for his work for the first five months.
Aficionado alleges he was routinely subject to “racist lectures,” and that West would indulge in antisemitic conspiracies about the Kardashians.
“The Jews are out to get me,” West said, according to the suit. “They froze my bank account. The Jews got Kim and my kids… The Jews convinced Kim. She has Jewish masters.”
Aficionado was fired in July 2023, when he was informed that West’s school, Donda Academy, would close.
West has been hit with a series of lawsuits from former employees this year, accusing him of a wide range of degrading and offensive behavior.
In June, Lauren Pisciotta, a former assistant, sued him for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. She amended her suit in October to allege that West had also drugged her and sexually assaulted her without her knowledge.
A former “director of intelligence” for West sued him in October, alleging that he was tasked with investigating the Kardashians and was told to tail West’s wife, Bianca Censori, while she was on vacation.
Benjamin Deshon Provo, another former employee, sued West in April, alleging that West fired him when he refused to shave his dreadlocks, which, according to the suit, were tied to Provo’s Muslim faith.
Provo and Aficionado are each represented by attorney Carney Shegerian, who also sued West on behalf of Trevor Phillips, an employee who alleged he was fired due to anti-Black racism. That lawsuit also quoted West as saying “the Jews are out to get me.”
West’s lawyer in that case, Brian Brumfield, filed a request to withdraw in September, saying that West had fired him in June.
“Defendant will also not speak with counsel and Defendant refuses to pay counsel as well,” Brumfield told the court.
A hearing on Brumfield’s request is set for next week.
