Kanye West is dealing with a brand new lawsuit filed by his former worker Trevor Phillips, who labored for the rapper’s design firm and the now-closed Donda Academy. Phillips claims he confronted discrimination, harassment, and retaliation whereas working for Kanye. The lawsuit alleges that Kanye threatened to shave the heads of Donda Academy college students and lock them in cages. The unique Christian non-public college, began by Kanye in 2022, required college students and workers to signal NDAs to stop them from discussing the varsity.
Within the lawsuit, Philips accuses Kanye of making a poisonous studying atmosphere for college kids by partaking in anti-Semitic rants and making discriminatory remarks. Kanye allegedly informed college students he wished to shave their heads and deliberate to place a jail on the college. Phillips is in search of particular damages exceeding $35,000, attorneys’ charges, and an injunction to stop Kanye from opening future faculties for college kids beneath 18 in California. The lawsuit additionally accuses Kanye of constructing anti-Semitic feedback, discriminating towards Black workers, and fascinating in inappropriate conduct at Donda Academy.
Phillips claims that Kanye confirmed “obvious arousal” to workers and engaged in inappropriate conduct throughout a gathering meant to debate the varsity’s curriculum. He alleges that regardless of being a Black man, Kanye handled Black workers worse than white workers. In a single incident, Kanye reportedly ordered a Black campus safety guard to shave his dreads or be fired, resulting in the guard’s resignation. Phillips additionally accuses Kanye of constructing anti-Semitic feedback throughout a dinner in 2022, praising Adolf Hitler and denying the Holocaust, resulting in his lawyer condemning Kanye’s messages of discrimination and antisemitism.
The lawsuit highlights Kanye’s offensive rants, discriminatory conduct, and inappropriate conduct at Donda Academy. Phillips’ lawyer hopes the lawsuit will vindicate their shoppers’ rights and ship a message to Kanye that his messages of discrimination don’t have any place on the planet. Kanye’s representatives haven’t but responded to the allegations. The lawsuit sheds gentle on the contentious atmosphere at Donda Academy, revealing disturbing conduct and feedback allegedly made by Kanye throughout his time on the unique college. The allegations paint a troubling image of Kanye’s therapy of scholars and workers on the academy.