Kanye West reportedly showed explicit photos to employees at Adidas - The Guardian

Kanye West has been accused of showing explicit pictures of his erstwhile woman Kim Kardashian to employees astatine Adidas, arsenic portion of behaviour galore saw arsenic “intimidation tactics”, according to a caller report.

The 43-year-old rapper and producer, besides known arsenic Ye, past period lost a plan declaration with the sportswear marque implicit antisemitic comments. He was accused of showing the images successful a Rolling Stone article published connected Tuesday.

One worker claimed Ye showed an explicit representation of Kardashian, 41, during a occupation interrogation successful 2018.

“My woman conscionable sent maine this,” Ye allegedly said aft showing a “very revealing and personal” photograph connected his phone.

Another erstwhile employee, according to the report, alleged Ye showed “personal” images of Kardashian to the originative squad astatine his Yeezy marque successful the aforesaid year.

A 3rd unidentified root told Rolling Stone West was “not acrophobic to amusement explicit images oregon speech astir situations that should beryllium kept private”.

Former Adidas employees told Rolling Stone Ye often showed explicit images, including his ain enactment tapes.

“I consciousness it was a maneuver to interruption a idiosyncratic down and found their unwavering allegiance to him, investigating and destroying people’s boundaries,” 1 said. Another claimed Ye targeted pistillate employees.

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 by Rolling Stone. In the letter, employees criticized Adidas executives for allegedly turning disconnected their “moral compass”.

The missive urged Adidas committee members and elder leaders to code “the toxic and chaotic situation that Kanye West created” and “a precise sick signifier of predacious behaviour toward women”.

The missive continued: “He has, successful years past, exploded astatine women successful the country with violative remarks, and would edifice to sexually disturbing references erstwhile providing plan feedback. This benignant of effect from a marque spouse is 1 that Adidas employees should ne'er beryllium subjected to, nor should Adidas enactment ever tolerate.”

In comments to Rolling Stone, employees astatine Yeezy and Adidas besides voiced regret astatine accepting what they saw was an unwritten regularisation – “Kanye is conscionable Kanye” – that they said diminished the interaction of his alleged behavior.

In the letter, employees accused Adidas of lacking “responsibility, accountability, and extortion that Adidas failed to supply their employees passim what we experienced arsenic years of verbal abuse, vulgar tirades, and bullying attacks”.

One erstwhile worker who worked intimately with Ye said: “Adidas enabled a batch of that benignant of behavior.”

Former employees astatine Adidas besides said Ye’s behaviour was connected nationalist presumption erstwhile helium released a 30-minute documentary on YouTube successful which helium showed Adidas executives astatine a institution meeting.

Saying it spoke for employees who “may beryllium fearful of speaking up”, the unfastened missive claims the documentary showed what was “by nary means a caller intimidation approach”, adding that “Kanye’s problematic behaviour started wrong the archetypal twelvemonth of his concern with the Adidas brand”.

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

“We person been and proceed to beryllium actively engaged successful conversations with our employees astir the events that led to our determination to extremity the partnership. They person our afloat enactment and arsenic we’re moving done the details of the termination, we person been wide that we privation to support our employees’ endowment and skills wrong the organization.

“Having said this, we volition not sermon backstage conversations, details oregon events that led to our determination to terminate the Adidas Yeezy concern and diminution to remark connected immoderate related speculation.”

Ye has not commented. The Guardian was not instantly capable to interaction him for comment.

Gap, Balenciaga and the endowment bureau CAA person besides dropped partnerships with Ye. Twitter and Instagram person blocked his accounts.

In October, during Paris manner week, Ye appeared astatine his ain amusement wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-Shirt and successful tweets said helium planned to spell “death con [sic] 3 connected Jewish people”. He besides accused Adidas and Gap of stealing his designs.

Ye has antecedently said pornography “destroyed” his family. Earlier this month, helium wrote connected Twitter: “I’m taking a 30-day cleanse. A verbal fast. No alcohol. No big films. No intercourse.”