{"id":1163,"date":"2024-06-04T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-hit-with-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-from-former-assistant\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:03:07","slug":"kanye-west-hit-with-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-from-former-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/kanye-west-hit-with-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-from-former-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Hit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit From Former Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tKanye West<\/strong> is facing a lawsuit from his former assistant over allegations of sexual harassment and wrongful termination, including claims that he masturbated in front of her.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a complaint filed Monday in Los Angeles court, Lauren Pisciotta<\/strong> claims that she faced a \u201csystematic\u201d onslaught of \u201cunlawful harassment\u201d during her year of working for the embattled rapper, first as an executive assistant and later as chief of staff for his companies.<\/p>\n

\n\tPisciotta says West frequently sent her sexually explicit texts, including photos and videos of him having sex with other women, and that he repeatedly propositioned her for sex.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDefendant would often tell plaintiff that he always wanted to have sex with her, and that he held these feelings for a very long time,\u201d Pisciotta\u2019s lawyers write. \u201cDefendant also falsely boasted that he had sex with plaintiff or would insinuate to his friends, business partners and music and fashion collaborators that he was having sex with plaintiff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn one particularly graphic allegation, Pisciotta claims that West locked her in a room during a private jet flight and laid down in a bed in front of her: \u201cPlaintiff sat in a chair across from defendant; he masturbated under the covers until he fell asleep. Plaintiff was unable to leave as the door had locked and jammed behind her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA rep for West, who now legally goes by the name Ye, did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the lawsuit, West hired Pisciotta in July 2021 after they met while she was working in connection with his fashion line. She says she agreed to work for him as a \u201cfull time employee\u201d \u00a0in return for a $1 million salary.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time she was hired, Pisciotta says she maintained a successful page on OnlyFans \u2013 a social media site in which subscribers can pay to access sexually explicit content from individual creators. Pisciotta says the page was generating more than $1 million per year, and West \u201cdid not have any issue or objection to it\u201d when she was hired.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut a year later, she says West told her that he wanted her to be \u201cGod like\u201d and asked her to delete the page in return for a promise of a $1 million payment. Though she agreed to do so, her lawyers claim she didn\u2019t see any of that money: \u201cYe never paid plaintiff as promised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPisciotta\u2019s lawsuit came with pages of texts allegedly sent by West, many of them sexually graphic. In one, he allegedly sent a video of him having sex and then asked \u201cWhat u think of this vid.\u201d In another, he referenced an earlier outing at a bowling alley: \u201cI just thinking back to the bowling alley thinking of what the headline could have been,\u201d the rapper wrote in one of the alleged texts. \u201cYe arrested for fucking the shit out of his assistant on the bowling alley floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn another incident, the lawsuit says West told a male guest that he could have sex with Pisciotta in exchange for allowing West to have sex with another woman. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn October 2022, Pisciotta says she was terminated, shortly after she had been promoted to chief of staff and offered a huge raise. Though she was allegedly offered a $3 million severance payment, she claims West and his companies later \u201creneged on their commitment to pay the severance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn technical terms, the lawsuit includes claims of breach of contract, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, retaliation, gender discrimination, fraud and various other employment law violations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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