Kanye West

Kanye West ‘Missing?’ Former Business Manager Says He Cannot Locate Him To Serve Lawsuit Paperwork

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Kanye&plus;west&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Kanye West<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s former business manager says the rapper is &&num;8220&semi;missing&&num;8221&semi; after failing to locate him over the last few weeks to serve him legal documents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Thomas St&period; John<&sol;strong> &&num;8211&semi; Ye&&num;8217&semi;s senior financial advisor for 18 months &&num;8211&semi; is attempting to sue him over lack of payment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>St&period; John filed court papers on Dec&period; 29 requesting more time to serve the lawsuit paperwork to West due to his apparent disappearance&comma; according to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-sun&period;com&sol;entertainment&sol;7006944&sol;kanye-west-business-manager-missing-lawsuit-kardashian&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>U&period;S&period; Sun<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Former Business Manager Seeking &dollar;4&period;5 Million Over Lack Of Payment&comma; But Can&&num;8217&semi;t Find Kanye To Serve Him<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The suit&comma; which names Ye and Yeezy LLC&period; as defendants on court documents&comma; is seeking &dollar;4&period;5 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To make matters worse&comma; St&period; John and his team have reportedly not been able to reach any legal representatives for West&period; As it turns out&comma; the &&num;8220&semi;new law firm&&num;8221&semi; St&period; John identified as West&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;new counsel was not affiliated with&&num;8221&semi; him at all&comma; the outlet reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1608501169738883075" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The court filing stated&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We were advised about a new law firm for defendants&comma; but not a specific point of contact&period; We subsequently learned of information in the news that the law firm identified as new counsel was not affiliated with the defendants&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>St&period; John stated he&&num;8217&semi;s had &&num;8220&semi;difficulty confirming the best current address&&num;8221&semi; for the mercurial rapper and entrepreneur as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Accordingly&comma; we have not been able to serve defendants through their counsel&period; As a general matter&comma; we have had difficulty confirming the best current address of Kanye West&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>As of today&comma; a case management conference had been scheduled for April 2023&comma; the outlet reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;102582" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-102582" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-102582" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;GettyImages-1244337929&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Kanye West" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"681" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-102582" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">MEGA&sol;GC Images<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Latest Headlines Come After A Year Of Controversy And Strife For The Mercurial Rapper<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>West has had a rough past couple of months&comma; much of it his own doing&period; Earlier this year&comma; he was dropped from his contracts with Balenciaga and Adidas due to &&num;8220&semi;hateful and dangerous&&num;8221&semi; comments about Jews&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kanye-west-loses-billionaire-status-after-adidas-terminates-deal-gap-balenciaga-similarly-end-partnerships-amidst-recent-controversies&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a> reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month&comma; West doubled down on the anti-Semitism&comma; telling Alex Jones&&num;8217&semi; that he &&num;8220&semi;likes Hitler&&num;8221&semi; on the latter&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Infowars<&sol;em> web show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"MM&lowbar;DISPLAY&lowbar;MANAGER&lowbar;AD&lowbar;DYNAMIC-2-15">&NewLine;<p>The Madame Tussauds location in London has since removed its wax figure of West from public view due to the controversies&period;&comma; according to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;independent&period;co&period;uk&sol;arts-entertainment&sol;music&sol;news&sol;kanye-west-missing-business-manager-b2253083&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Independent<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kanye-wests-honorary-degree-revoked-over-anti-black-antisemitic-comments&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a> previously reported that West had an honorary degree revoked over &&num;8220&semi;anti-Black and anti-Semitic&&num;8221&semi; 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