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Kanye West sued for sexually assaulting a model while filming a music video in 2010
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Kanye West sued for sexually assaulting a model while filming a music video in 2010

Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye Westis in legal trouble with a model who sued the artist for gagging and suffocating her until she freaked out during a music video shoot in 2010. Read also: Kanye West doc: Kim Kardashian’s ‘worst nightmare’ as she prepares for conflicting phone arguments to be leaked

Kanye West has yet to react to the new lawsuit. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Kanye West has yet to react to the new lawsuit. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Legal troubles

Conformable Rolling Stonea new lawsuit has been filed by Jenifer An, a former contestant on America’s Next Top Model, alleging sexual assault. The claims revolve around La Roux’s production In For the Kill, where Kanye contributed a verse.

She claimed that Kanye He allegedly choked her with both hands and subjected her to “pornographic gagging”. The incident happened when the video was filmed at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan in 2010.

In the complaint filed Friday in federal court in New York, Jenifer claimed she was dressed in lingerie and working as a background actor in the video. She claimed that when Kanye arrived on set, he pointed at her and said, “Give me the Asian girl.”

“On camera, Defendant West began to choke the Plaintiff with one hand. He then wrapped his other hand around her neck and continued to strangle her with both hands,” the lawsuit states.

More about the process

In the complaint, Jenifer alleged that Kanye he used his fingers “to imitate forced oral sex” while allegedly shouting: “This is art. This is the damn art. I’m like Picasso.”

The lawsuit claimed Kanye assaulted Jenifer “in a manner similar to pornographic throats/deep throats/BDSM fetishes.” Jenifer claimed that no one helped her.

“The plaintiff struggled to breathe and felt as if she had temporarily passed out. When Defendant West decided she was done with Plaintiff, her face was covered in saliva and makeup,” the lawsuit states.

Model An calls Universal music The group as a co-defendant in the lawsuit, alleging that the company arranged for Kanye’s planned cameo in the video and subsequently “failed to investigate” or take action.

She accused Kanye of sexual assault and strangulation and is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. Meanwhile, Kanye has yet to react to the new lawsuit.

Bigger problems for Kanye

The new trial follows Kanye was sued last week by an ex Yeezy an employee who claims Kanye subjected him to anti-Semitic rants and forced him to stay in a hotel suite while Kanye had rough sex in an adjoining room with his wife. Bianca Censori on one occasion and a masseuse on another. He was the subject of many complaints that were filed after his anti-Semitic remarks posted on his social media accounts in October 2022. The posts also led to the termination of his partnerships with Gap and sneakers.

Last June, his former assistant Lauren Pisciotta filed a lawsuit alleging Kanye sent her sexually explicit messages and masturbated in front of her during a relentless campaign of sexual harassment.