Representatives for Kanye West have alleged {that a} man bodily and sexually assaulted his spouse Bianca Censori in an incident in Los Angeles.
Sources beforehand instructed TMZ that West was being investigated as a suspect in a battery incident earlier this week, after the rapper was alleged to have struck a person who had grabbed Censori.
The rapper’s staff have subsequently launched an announcement, saying: “‘Grabbed’ is grossly insufficient as an outline of what occurred. Bianca was bodily assaulted. The assailant didn’t merely collide into her. He put his arms beneath her costume, immediately on her physique, he grabbed her waist, he spun her round, after which he blew her kisses. She was battered and sexually assaulted.”
The Guardian has contacted the Los Angeles Police Division (LAPD) for additional data.
It follows an incident in 2022 when West was investigated by the LAPD for battery of an individual he claimed was taunting him. “He simply had this actual perspective, like, ‘Whatchu gonna do?’”, mentioned West, who was not arrested or charged over the incident. “Imma simply inform you, that blue Covid masks ain’t cease that knockout.”
West, who has modified his identify to Ye, reportedly married Censori, an architect at his firm Yeezy, in December 2022, lower than a month after his divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalised.
That 12 months West misplaced a sequence of brand name partnership offers with Adidas and others within the wake of a sequence of antisemitic feedback, together with that Jewish folks “tried to black ball anybody whoever opposes your agenda”. However he has loved a profession renaissance this 12 months following the discharge of his album Vultures, a collaboration with vocalist Ty Dolla $ign which topped the US chart and produced the worldwide hit Carnival, which additionally went to No 1 within the US.
In December 2023, West apologised for the antisemitic remarks, writing in Hebrew on social media: “I deeply remorse any ache I’ll have induced … I’m dedicated to creating amends and selling unity.”
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