Rapper Kanye West (Atlanta, Georgia, 46 years old) has been accused of punching a man in the face after he allegedly sexually assaulted and inappropriately touched his wife, Bianca Censori, in the city of Los Angeles. The events occurred last Tuesday, April 16, when West allegedly punched an unidentified man after he, as mentioned in the Los Angeles Police Department report accessed by various media, “pushed or grabbed him.” ” to Censori.
According to the artist's representatives, “pushing or grabbing” is “a grossly inadequate expression as a description of what happened: Bianca was physically attacked,” according to statements made to
TMZ
. And they continue: “The aggressor did not limit himself to colliding with her. He put her hands under her dress, directly on top of her body, grabbed her waist, spun her around, and then blew kisses at her. She was beaten and sexually assaulted.” The complainant did not require medical treatment for her injuries, but filed the assault report with the police.
Kanye West and Bianca Censori got married, secretly, just 20 days after the rapper signed his divorce with Kim Kardashian in November 2022. West, who had a fleeting romance with actress Julia Fox and who chained one relationship after another since his separation from Kim Kardashian in January 2021, was already seen with Bianca Censori at a Balenciaga show in May 2022. The couple got married on December 20, 2022, while the dissolution of Ye's marriage - which is now her legal name - had taken place less than three weeks earlier, on November 30, after almost a year of negotiations with the star of the reality television and businesswoman. Censori is a designer and worked for the sports brand Yeezy, owned by the musician.
The punch is just the latest of the numerous scandals that West has been involved in for years. From being considered one of the best musicians of his generation, and one of the most influential, today he has become a pariah in the two industries in which he once dominated: music and fashion. . In January 2021, his separation from the most famous sister of the Kardashian clan was announced after seven years of marriage and four children together. In October 2022, the singer, long diagnosed with bipolar disorder, entered a spiral of foolishness and anti-Semitism that cost him, among many things, his lucrative agreement with Adidas. One of the most striking acts that precipitated his fall was holding a surprise fashion show in Paris for his brand Yeezy in which he presented, in addition to wearing it himself, a t-shirt that read
White
Lives Matter. . The slogan is the one used by white supremacists in the United States in response to the anti-racist movement
Black Lives Matter
. After that incident, the rapper, a firm defender of Donald Trump, assured in an interview on the
Drink Champs podcast
that George Floyd died from taking drugs and not from asphyxiation when he was detained by a police officer in 2020. Immediately after all this, the firm German sports company issued a statement announcing the cessation of its creative and commercial relationship with Yeezy, the rapper's brand, and he was no longer a billionaire.
In recent times, the reason Ye appears in the media has never had to do with his work. His appearances with his wife usually make headlines, due to the stylistic change that Censori has undergone since she married the rapper. It's not the first: West is known for his obsessive control over the appearance and wardrobe of his partners. The model Amber Rose, with whom the artist had a relationship with a peak of media attention between 2009 and 2010, spoke about it in
Elle
magazine in 2009, about how she was trying to change her style: “I like pink electric and bright yellow, but not him. His favorite color is off-white. “What kind of person has off-white as their favorite color?” In an episode of
Keeping Up With The Kardashians,
the world witnessed how West, who boasts of having found the right style for his ex-wife, breaks into his Calabasas house and throws out his entire closet. It also happened during his brief romance with actress Julia Fox and, now, Censori. Every public appearance of the couple seems like a performative act. Whatever the reason, West long ago stopped being in the news due to his musical talent.