Kanye West is facing yet another lawsuit filed by a former employee at Doda Academy, this time accusing him of discriminating against black executives and seeking to lock students in cages.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday (April 2) in Los Angeles court, Trevor Phillips says the embattled rapper (who Ye now says) treated the school's black staff “much worse than the white staff” — and then she was subjected to “non-stop harassment” and “humiliation” when she spoke about it.
Like the many other lawsuits filed by former Donda Academy employees, the new complaint includes a number of outlandish allegations about West and his behavior at the school. He claims he told students to “shave their heads” and that he “intended to put a prison in the school” where students could be “locked in cages.”
In another strange alleged episode, Phillips claims West invited him to a room at the Nobu Hotel, where the rapper wore Batman and watched it in silence.
“After a long and awkward silence, Kanye has finally spoken again,” Phillips claims in the suit. “Turning his attention back to Phillips, he launched into an unprovoked and bigoted rant attacking the Jews.” Later that night, Phillips claims West lay in bed and simulated masturbation while talking about orgies.
Phillips claims he was finally fired last year.
The case is the latest lawsuit filed by former employees of Donda Academy and the Yeezy Christian Academy that preceded it. One of them, filed in July, claimed the school had no windows because the struggling rapper “didn't like glass” and that students weren't allowed on the second floor because West was “allegedly afraid of stairs.” Another lawsuit, filed in April 2023, alleged that the only food available to students was sushi.
As with those earlier cases, the outlandish allegations contained in Tuesday's lawsuit supported simpler legal claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.
A representative for West did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
