Shopify said that the brand has violated its terms; meanwhile, a former Yeezy staffer filed a suit claiming West sent antisemitic and misogynistic texts. The company hosting and fulfilling orders for Yeezy.com has removed the brand’s website after the streetwear and footwear brand, owned by Kanye West, reduced its online shop to a single T-shirt with a Nazi swastika emblazoned on the front, a representative for the brand’s hosting platform confirmed. Shopify, the host of West’s successful brand’s e-commerce website, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement about the removal on Tuesday morning that following the addition of the swastika shirt, the brand violated policy. “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,” a spokesperson for Shopify said. The platform’s rep did not explain which rules of Shopify’s terms were violated. The website hosting and e-commerce platform’s terms of service declare that Shopify will act “to restrict products or activities that we deem unsafe, inappropriate or offensive.” Yeezy.com now sends users to a blank webpage reading “Something went wrong:” and “Store not available.” (...) Also on Tuesday, a former Yeezy employee named as a “Jane Doe,” filed a lawsuit naming the company and West, who also goes by Ye, claiming she was subjected to discrimination, harassment and retaliation because of her gender and Jewish religion. The complaint, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, contains multiple documented text messages to Doe and other employees using the terms “Nazi,” “Hitler,” “bitch”, “deathcon” and more, according to release about the filing sent to The Hollywood Reporter. It also states that West’s recent social media tirades against Jewish people and stunt on the Grammys red carpet, where his wife, Bianca Censori, dropped her long coat to reveal an essentially nude look, have placed his behavior — which the release says has been blamed on his autism, alcoholism and mental illness — in a new light. “Ye waged a relentless and deliberate campaign of antisemitism and misogyny against my client. His appalling treatment of women and fixation on Nazism, evident in abusive texts where he repeatedly calls himself Hitler, expose his motives. We need to stop excusing Ye’s behavior. As a father, husband and employer, he must be held accountable. Ye dared my client to sue and we will see him in court,” Doe’s Attorney, Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates, said in a statement.
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siehe auch: Shopify Shuts Down Kanye West’s Yeezy Site, Talent Agent Drops Him Amid Latest Antisemitic Tear: Timeline Kanye West's talent agency has dropped him as a client after he posted dozens of antisemitic messages online and sold swastika T-shirts on his fashion brand’s website, leading Shopify to shut down the site—and as he faces a lawsuit from an Jewish ex-staffer who alleges he once texted her, "Hail Hitler." Visitors to yeezy.com were greeted with an all-white screen and the words, "Something went wrong. What happened? This store is unavailable." Shopify, a widely used e-commerce platform, told multiple news outlets it was responsible for the website’s removal: "All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms, so we removed them from Shopify,” the company said. It’s unclear if any of the swastika shirts being sold on the website were shipped to customers in the two days they were available for purchase. Feb. 11An unnamed Jewish woman who used to work for Yeezy sued him in California superior court Tuesday, alleging she was discriminated against and harassed by West because of her sex and religion. The plaintiff, who said she worked as a marketer for Yeezy in 2024, said she was subject to antisemitic remarks, including a text reading, “Welcome to the first day of working for Hitler,” and was sent pornographic material and harassing text messages. Feb. 1033&West, a Los Angeles talent agency, dropped West as a client, and his agent, Daniel McCartney, posted to Instagram the agency was done working with West "due to his harmful and hateful remarks that myself nor 33&West can stand for.” Feb. 10After continuing to tweet throughout the weekend, the @kanyewest account on X showed no past tweets and read, “This account doesn’t exist” on Monday morning. Before the account went dark, he posted about Taylor Swift singing along to halftime performer Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show set, which included his Grammy-winning song “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at fellow rapper Drake that calls him a “certified pedophile.”