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A one-time employee fired by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has accused the singer of homophobic behavior and simulating masturbation on a hotel bed while the man was forced to watch Robert Pattinson in The Batman movie on mute.
The bizarre claims come as part of a lawsuit filed by the fired employee, Trevor Phillips, that alleges Ye was virulently antisemitic, racist in his interactions with Black people, serially abusive to staff and even children enrolled at his private academy, as well as untethered to reality when it came to gay people.
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“Gay people are controlled by Bill Gates so that they don’t have children for population control,” Phillips quotes Ye as saying.
According to Phillips’ account, Ye said “the gays”, who are “not true Christians,” were next in line on a list of targets after the Jews.
“Yeah, I am going for the gays! FIRST the Jews, THEN the gays.”
The 42-page behind-the-scenes complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court is an explosive indictment of Ye’s behavior in the months after the singer and wannabe fashion mogul paraded a model down a Paris runway for his Yeezy show in 2022 wearing a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt.
Soon he was adding virulent antisemitism to his self-loathing and public racism.
In one post on Twitter, Ye bragged he’d go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” In an Instagram post captioned “Jesus is Jew,” Ye claimed his rival Sean “Diddy” Combs was controlled by a Jewish cabal.
Both Adidas and the Gap would sever ties with the designer.
It was amid Ye’s public downfall that Phillips started working with the Yeezy brand. He was soon moved to other assignments as Ye was cast out of the fashion world.
Phillips claims the singer continued to “double down” on his antisemitism and make similar statements throughout his nine-month employment.
In the filings, Phillips says Ye compared himself favorably to Hitler, “minus the gas chambers,” and called the Nazi leader “great” and “an innovator”.
Ye said he believed the “Jews are out to get” him and the “Jews are stealing all [his] money,” according to Phillips.
It was also around this time that Ye brought along well-known white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes to a Mar-a-Lago dinner with Donald Trump.
Phillips, who is Black, says it was “immediately apparent” that Ye “treated the Black staff considerably worse than white employees” and would “scream and berate Black employees, while never even as much raising his tone at the white staff.”
The “dangerous rhetoric” was repeated in front of children at Ye’s Donda Academy, according to Phillips, who said Ye once told two students that he would “shave their heads and that he intended to put a jail at the school – and that they could be locked in cages.”
Phillips says Ye also began “spreading antisemitism” in school meetings, would brag he “only likes to date white women,” and would tell employees fat staff would be fired.
The suit claims when Phillips confronted Ye over his “bigotry”, the singer “responded mercilessly, with incessant harassment, humiliation, and attempts to both mentally control, and destroy, Phillips.”
Phillip said his nightmarish nine months finally ended with a “vulgar lashing” by Ye in front of over a hundred Donda Academy parents, children and staff, when he was told he was “f**king fired,” and that he should “get the f**k out of here.”
