While Kanye West has spent the last few weeks spouting anti-Semitic remarks, his brand partners and business affiliates continue to cut ties with him, and he now faces another setback.
A company operating in the Miami Design District, a central neighborhood dedicated to fashion, design, art, gastronomy and architecture, sued West for non-payment of a bill of more than $140,000 dollars, according to a judicial document filed in a court in Florida (USA)
The plaintiff is the company Surface Media, LLC, based in the state of Delaware.
In the lawsuit West is claimed for expenses of $145,500 rental dollars of a local agreed last January, at a rate of $5, 000 daily during 25 days, plus moving costs $20,000 dollars, according to the document presented this week in a court of the Southern District of Florida and to which EFE had access.
The court document explains that West also agreed to buy four office chairs for a value of $813 dollars.
“Defendant also requested that Plaintiff begin removing certain pieces of the curated art collection, design objects, and furniture from the space,” the lawsuit says.
According to the document, the pieces removed for West to personalize his space had a total value of $50 million dollars.
“My client accomplished what was essentially an overnight transformation of his art studio into a recording studio for Ye and the artists who accompanied him,” said Jonathan Smulevich, an attorney at the Lowy and Cook law firm that represents Surface Media, according to the Miami Herald.
The popularity of the former of Kim Kardashian has suffered a deep slump as a result of his recent declarations of antisemitic and racist character.
West wrote in early October a series of anti-Semitic messages on Twitter and Instagram, and previously attended a parade in Paris wearing the slogan “White Lives Matter” (“White lives matter”), often used by white supremacists in response to the movement against racism “Black Lives Matter” (“Black lives matter”).
Several clothing and footwear brands associated with the rapper have joined in recent days to the well-known breakup of Adidas with Kanye West, who marketed the listed Yeezy through the great sporting goods company, which has erased $1,500 million from his fortune and has removed him from the list of Forbes magazine’s billionaires.
The rapper -officially called Ye- also faces a lawsuit for defamation from the family of George Floyd, the African-American murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, which he is claiming $250 million dollars for saying on a podcast that his cause of death was fentanyl use and not police violence.