The four underage children who are suing Kanye West and his firm are seeking the court to conceal their identities and keep their accusations confidential, a new report claimed.
According to court documents that were obtained by In Touch Weekly, a lawyer who represents the minors, who vary in age from 14 to 17, requested that they be permitted to continue to be known as John Does in the complaint that they filed.
“Each of the Plaintiffs have also expressed a desire to proceed in this litigation under pseudonyms to protect them from embarrassment and harassment. The minor Plaintiffs believe that the public disclosure of their true identities would raise a serious risk of emotional psychological harm to them and their families,” the attorney stated.
It was said by the attorney that one of the identified plaintiffs had been subjected to harassment, which prompted the minor plaintiffs to express "serious concerns that if their true identities were disclosed, it would be very easy for Defendant, or anyone else, to find and publicly harass these minor plaintiffs and their families."
The matter has not yet been decided upon by a judge. In the beginning of this year, the federal case was filed against Kanye, who is 47 years old, as well as Milo Yiannopoulos, who was his former chief of staff. Shemar Dacosta, Pholoso Mofokeng, Miles Jackson-Lea, Olakunle Otatunji, a minor kid with the initial R.M., and three other minor children filed the lawsuit. The complaint was launched by the minor children.
The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the defendants, alleging that they had engaged in forced labor, cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment, failed to pay the minimum wage, failed to pay overtime, created a hostile work environment, committed fraud, and a variety of other allegations. For the purpose of promoting Ye's album "Vultures 2," the plaintiffs claimed that they were engaged to work on a team that would design an application for a streaming service.
It was said in the lawsuit that the members of the team were located all over the world and included minors as young as 14 years old. The employees asserted that they were bullied due to their sexual orientation and ethnicity and that this bullying occurred. A further allegation was made by an employee that Kanye West's wife, Bianca Censori, had emailed a file that contained a link to explicit pornography for a Yeezy Porn app that Kanye intended to create.
“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.
Employees were allegedly subjected to the designation of "slaves," according to the lawsuit. According to the claimants, they were promised a sum of £120,000 once the application was completed. Numerous plaintiffs asserted that they had experienced mental distress, anxiety, embarrassment, sorrow, sadness, and anxiety as a result of the incident.
The former workers wanted specific damages for what they claimed were underpaid salaries as well as emotional pain because of the situation. The 39-year-old Milo responded to the allegations. On behalf of Bianca, who is 29 years old, he stated to TMZ that he was permitted to speak on her behalf and that the charges that were made against her were "offensive, disgusting, abhorrent, and wholly false."
One of the claimants was referred to as a "tragic, desperate, attention-seeking wannabe Yeezy staffer" by Ye's former head of staff, who criticized these individuals. He stated that Kanye’s intended enterprise never got off the ground, which is the reason he disputed claims that children were ever exposed to pornography.
The news that Kanye’s attorney had lately withdrawn from multiple instances in which he had represented the rapper was initially published by In Touch Weekly. The reasons for this decision were varied.
Business Times has reached out to Kanye West for comments.
