1,500 million less Kanye West stops being a billionaire overnight
Consequences Adidas breaks up with Kanye West in a decision that will cost him more than 1,000 million in sales
A company that operates in the
Miami Design District,
a central neighborhood dedicated to fashion, design, art, gastronomy and architecture, sued rapper
Kanye West
for non-payment of an invoice of more than $140,000, according to a document lawsuit 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 the expenses of 145,813 dollars for the rent of a local agreed last January, at a rate of 5,000 per day for 25 days, plus moving costs of 20,000 dollars, according to the document presented this week in a
District court. South Florida
and to which EFE had access.
The court document explains that
West also agreed to buy four office chairs
worth $813.
"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 combined value of $50 million.
"My client accomplished what was essentially an overnight transformation of his art studio into a recording studio for
Ye
and his accompanying artists," said
Jonathan Smulevich,
an attorney with the law firm
Lowy and Cook,
which represents to Surface Media.
according to the
Miami Herald.
The rapper's popularity has suffered a deep slump as a result of his recent anti-Semitic and racist statements.
West wrote a series of anti-Semitic messages on Twitter and
Instagram in early October,
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 notorious split of
Adidas
with Kanye West, who marketed the listed Yeezy through the large sports products company, which has erased 1,500 million from his fortune and has removed him from Forbes magazine's list of billionaires.
The rapper -who is 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 (USA)
in 2020, who claims 250 million dollars for saying in a podcast that the The cause of his death was the consumption of fentanyl and not police violence.
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