Kanye West’s previous security personnel sued him for discrimination, wrongful discontinuation and developing an aggressive workplace, to name a few insurance claims. Benjamin Deshon Provo included his name to the checklist of ex-Donda Academy workers that have actually brought problems versus West by submitting a claim in Los Angeles on Friday (April 26).
According to Provo, West “unjustifiably and unreasonably” required workers cut their heads in 2023. Provo would not abide, mentioning spiritual factors for maintaining his dreadlocks. West and supervisor John Hicks pressed Provo to reduce the fears, however Provo persevered in spite of West’s “significantly a lot more hostile” needs.
” Complainant declined,” Provo’s lawyer kept in mind in court papers gotten by PEOPLE. “Afterwards, Hicks came close to Complainant and mentioned, ‘Kanye stated, ‘Inform the one with the fears to cut his head or he is discharged.’ Complainant declined to cut his head, and therefore thereof, his work was ended.”
Provo started benefiting Kanye West in 2021. He managed safety at the Donda Academy, Sunday Solution occasions and a Yeezy storage facility. Provo was presumably informed to “avoid paparazzi from communicating with Kanye whatsoever required, consisting of acts of physical violence.”
The security personnel’s suit stated there was “a raw distinction in the means Kanye dealt with Complainant and various other Black workers” contrasted to various other workers.
” Kanye regularly howled at and scolded Black workers, while on the other hand, he never ever even elevated his intonation towards white team,” Provo’s suit competed.
Provo declared he was paid much less than his non-Black coworkers. He experienced a “decline in his incomes” after elevating a problem.
West’s previous security personnel sued him a couple of weeks after an additional previous Donda Academy worker called Trevor Phillips made comparable insurance claims in a different suit. Phillips stated West “dealt with the Black team significantly even worse than white workers.” Phillips additionally implicated Kanye West of intimidating to cut Donda Academy trainees’ heads and placed them in cages.
