Kanye West Loses Class Action Lawsuit, Ex-Employees Win Big

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Kanye West is not having a great year. Not only is he possibly seeing a court battle with Kim Kardashian over their kids, but he just lost another lawsuit. Some of his former employees sued him in a class action suit, and the judge ruled against Ye. He now has to pay his former employees hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Here is what you need to know about his courtroom loss.

Kanye West Loses Court Battle With Employees

Kanye West has always been an eccentric figure. He is constantly in the headlines. He got even more attention when he got with Kim Kardashian. In some form or another, there is always controversy surrounding him, and it keeps people glued to everything he does, and everything that happens around him.

Former employees of Kanye West sued the rapper after he reportedly failed to pay them what they were owed for work completed. The entire lawsuit was a class action affair with two employees, Taliah Leslie and Shelby Grochowski.

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According to reports, Leslie and Grochowski have asked the courts to approve the deal they have made with Kanye’s team. According to the reports (via In Touch Weekly), Kanye agreed to pay them $625,000 to resolve the case. This could save him some money and ensure that the employees get what they are owed after what Kanye reportedly put them through.

The case said that Taliah and Shelby began working for West in November 2019 as an assistant designer and an assistant patternmaker. Kanye then classified them as independent contractors when they should have been non-exempt employees.

They then said that Yeezy “eventually reclassified [Shelby] as an employee despite giving him the same job duties. He then reportedly misclassified him as exempt from overtime when his true classification should have been non-exempt.”

Taliah filed the lawsuit in 2021 for labor violations, including failure to pay overtime wages and minimum wages. They also claimed unsatisfactory working conditions. An example is that Kanye reportedly didn’t like the smell of food, so he made them eat outdoors on lunch breaks, even in inclement weather.

The reports say that Kanye West’s wife, Bianca Censori, signed the settlement agreement on behalf of her husband.

Kanye West Being Sued For Alleged Sexual Assault

Kanye West is also facing current sexual assault allegations by his former assistant. Lauren Pisciotta has sued Kanye for the alleged incident, which she said happened at a studio session co-hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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Pisciotta, who worked for West from 2021 to 2022, claimed that she was the victim of “sexual battery” after she said Kanye “laced” her drink with something and then assaulted her.

However, Kanye denies all allegations and said that Pisciotta tried to “blackmail him” when he rejected her sexual advances. “In response to these baseless allegations, Ye will be filing a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta,” the statement from West’s lawyers read.

What are your thoughts on all the lawsuits coming against Kanye West lately? Are you surprised that he came to a settlement on this specific one? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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