Kanye West reportedly showed explicit photos to employees at Adidas



Rapper and manner deser created ‘toxic surroundings’ by sharing drawback shots of Kim Kardashian and his precise ain enactment tapes, Rolling Stone reviews

Kanye West mislaid a layout declaration with the sports covering emblem Adidas eventual period implicit antisemitic comments. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/APKanye West misplaced a layout statement with the sports covering emblem Adidas remaining period implicit antisemitic comments. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/APEdward HelmoreWed 23 Nov 2022 12.30 ESTLast modified connected Wed 23 Nov 2022 12.58 EST

Kanye West has been accused of showing circumstantial pix of his erstwhile woman Kim Kardashian to employees astatine Adidas, arsenic portion of behaviour galore noticed arsenic “intimidation procedures”, accordant with a marque caller file.

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The 43-year-antique rapper and producer, additionally referred to arsenic Ye, eventual period misplaced a layout statement with the sports deterioration emblem implicit antisemitic remarks. He go accused of showing the pix successful a Rolling Stone article posted connected Tuesday.

One idiosyncratic claimed Ye showed an explicit representation of Kardashian, forty one, astatine immoderate constituent of a occupation interrogation successful 2018.

“My woman conscionable despatched maine this,” Ye allegedly stated aft showing a “very revealing and private” representation connected his telephone.

Another erstwhile worker, successful keeping with the report, alleged Ye showed “non-public” drawback shots of Kardashian to the innovative squad astatine his Yeezy logo wrong the identical 12 months.

A 0.33 unidentified root instructed Rolling Stone West turned into “not acrophobic to uncover circumstantial photographs oregon speech astir situations that indispensable beryllium stored personal”.

Former Adidas employees instructed Rolling Stone Ye regularly showed circumstantial pix, including his ain intercourse tapes.

“I acquisition it turned into a maneuver to interruption a idiosyncratic down and found their unwavering allegiance to him, investigating and destroying people’s boundaries,” 1 stated. Another claimed Ye targeted miss personnel.

Some of the allegations were made successful an unfastened letter, entitled The Truth About Yeezy: A Call to Action for Adidas Leadership, which was obtained via Rolling Stone. In the letter, employees criticized Adidas executives for allegedly turning disconnected their “ethical compass”.

The missive urged Adidas committee participants and elder leaders to woody with “the toxic and chaotic situation that Kanye West created” and “a wholly unwell signifier of predacious behaviour person to ladies”.

The missive continued: “He has, successful years beyond, exploded astatine ladies wrong the country with violative comments, and could inn to sexually stressful references whilst supplying des remarks. This benignant of effect from a marque subordinate is 1 that Adidas unit person to ne'er beryllium subjected to, nor request to Adidas absorption ever tolerate.”

In feedback to Rolling Stone, employees astatine Yeezy and Adidas additionally voiced remorse astatine accepting what they noticed changed into an unwritten regularisation – “Kanye is simply Kanye” – that they stated dwindled the interaction of his alleged conduct.

In the letter, unit accused Adidas of lacking “obligation, duty, and information that Adidas didn't supply their employees astatine immoderate signifier successful what we skilled arsenic years of verbal abuse, vulgar tirades, and bullying assaults”.

One erstwhile worker who labored cautiously with Ye said: “Adidas enabled a assortment of that signifier of conduct.”

Former employees astatine Adidas additionally said Ye’s behaviour changed into connected nationalist presumption erstwhile helium released a 30-minute documentary on YouTube successful which helium showed Adidas executives astatine a endeavor assembly.

Saying it spoke for employees who “may beryllium acrophobic of talking up”, the unfastened missive claims the documentary showed what was “never a caller intimidation approach”, adding that “Kanye’s analyzable behaviour commenced wrong the archetypal yr of his concern with the Adidas brand”.

On Wednesday, an Adidas spokesperson advised the Guardian: “Adidas does not tolerate hatred code and violative behaviour and consequently has terminated the Adidas Yeezy partnership.

“We had been and proceed to beryllium actively engaged successful conversations with our unit astir the activities that brought astir our enactment to discontinue the partnership. They person our implicit enactment and arsenic we’re moving thru the info of the termination, we person been wide that we privation to sphere our personnel’ expertise and abilties wrong the employer.

“Having stated this, we tin present not talk idiosyncratic conversations, details oregon events that caused our prime to terminate the Adidas Yeezy concern and diminution to remark connected immoderate associated hypothesis.”

Ye has present not commented. The Guardian turned into not close present susceptible of interaction him for comment.

Gap, Balenciaga and the expertise corp CAA person additionally dropped partnerships with Ye. Twitter and Instagram person blocked his accounts.

In October, during Paris manner week, Ye seemed astatine his idiosyncratic show wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-Shirt and successful tweets said helium deliberate to determination “death con [sic] 3 connected Jewish people”. He besides accused Adidas and Gap of stealing his dess.

Ye has antecedently stated pornography “destroyed” his family. Earlier this month, helium wrote connected Twitter: “I’m taking a 30-day cleanse. A verbal rapid. No alcohol. No grownup movies. No sex.”