The teenagers suing Kanye West and his company over an alleged hostile work environment are demanding over $1 million in damages, In Touch can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by In Touch, the lawyer representing the four minor children, along with adult plaintiffs, Shemar Dacosta, Pholoso Mofokeng, Miles Jackson-Lea and Olakunle Olatunji are asking for a default judgment against Ye’s company Yeezy.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs sued Ye, 47, his former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos and Yeezy LLC.
The minors in the case range from 14 to 17. The plaintiffs said they were hired to work as a team to help Ye develop a streaming app that he could use to promote his album “Vulture 2.”
The former employees said the experience was horrible. They claimed to have been subjected to bullying due to sexual orientation and ethnicities.
The plaintiffs claimed Ye’s wife, Bianca Censori, shared explicit files with the team when Ye was planning to launch an adult studio.
“No guardrails were put in place to prevent the underaged YZYVSN workers from working on Yeezy Porn, or to prevent them from being exposed to and being forced to view pornography to perform their work,” the suit alleged.
The suit claimed certain employees were called “slaves” at work.
The lawsuit demanded damages for the alleged emotional distress, anxiety, humiliation, anguish, depression and anxiety they suffered. Milo, 40, spoke out against the lawsuit publicly.
He told TMZ he was authorized to speak on behalf of Bianca, 29. Milo said the claims against Bianca were “offensive, disgusting, abhorrent, and wholly false.”
Milo called one of the plaintiffs a “tragic, desperate, attention-seeking wannabe Yeezy staffer.” Milo denied that the employees were exposed to explicit material. Ye and Milo have yet to file an official response to the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs said Yeezy was served but has yet to respond. Now, Ye’s former employees want a default judgment against Yeezy. Each plaintiff is seeking around $300,000 in damages.
The lawyer representing the group asked for a judgment in the amount of $2,491,984, which will cover the former employees’ alleged unpaid wages, emotional damages and punitive damages.
The lawyer argued that punitive damages were warranted in the case.
He wrote, “An award of punitive damages is warranted to penalize Defendants for their intentional and malicious actions and to deter similar misconduct in the future. Defendants orchestrated a scheme to exploit Plaintiffs for their labor, including recruiting minors, subjecting them to abusive working conditions, and then refusing to pay them for their work.”
The judge has yet to rule. As In Touch first reported, Ye is facing a separate lawsuit filed by his former assistant accusing him of sexual harassment.
The suit was brought by a woman named Lauren Pisciotta, who was hired by Ye in 2021 to serve as his personal assistant available 24/7.
The accuser has struggled to track down the musician to serve him with the legal papers. Ye has yet to respond to the claims.
