Kanye West employed alt-right determine Milo Yiannopoulos to work on his presidential marketing campaign upon asserting his 2024 run in November, and allegedly shelled out tens of 1000’s to him in that quick time.
According to FEC filings obtained and seen by TMZ on Monday (January 30), Ye paid Yiannopoulos $40,000 for “Campaign Wrap Up Services” simply earlier than Christmas. A separate $9,955 was paid to him by the marketing campaign in November for what they listing as “Domain Transfer.”
The FEC docs additionally present that Ye’s marketing campaign reimbursed white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes $14,719.87 for journey prices. Fuentes was additionally engaged on the marketing campaign and was noticed alongside Ye all through his controversial media run within the fall – which included praising Hitler on Alex Jones’ Infowars podcast.
Yiannopoulos was fired from the marketing campaign shortly after the Infowars episode, and allegedly told Daily Beast journalist Will Sommer over email that there was a “mutual conclusion that I should step away.”
The blow-back from praising Hitler and spewing different antisemitic statements was main, with friends and former collaborators among the many likes of Jamie Foxx, Mike Dean and Questlove talking out in opposition to Kanye, and lots of manufacturers together with adidas, Balenciaga and his expertise company CAA severing their enterprise relationship with him.
After additionally being banned from each Instagram and Twitter across the similar time, Ye maintained such a low profile that he was even being rumored as “missing” – till he popped up earlier this month with a thriller lady that turned out to be his new spouse.
According to TMZ, Ye and Yeezy architectural designer Bianca Censori — who’s labored at his firm for a number of years — not too long ago commemorated their love at a personal ceremony. The pair have but to file a wedding certificates to make it authorized, nevertheless, nevertheless it’s apparently official sufficient to introduce her to his oldest daughter.
As of final week, Kanye West is now a suspect in a police investigation after an incident captured on digital camera confirmed him confronting a lady for following him to {photograph} him.
The incident is one among many the place Ye has discovered himself at odds with paparazzi as of late. The Donda rapper not too long ago shared {that a} collection of encounters with movie star photographers contributed to his psychological decline, main him to start out taking medicine.
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