Kanye West is reportedly set to lose millions due to his latest stunt at last night’s Grammy Awards.
via: Daily Mail
Kanye West has lost a $20 million deal to play in Japan as a result of his controversial stunt at the Grammys, according to sources in Tokyo.
West, 47, had signed up to do two shows at the Tokyo Dome in May, but following the naked stunt on the red carpet of the Grammys on Sunday night with his wife Bianca Censori, his investors have taken fright.
A source said: 'Kanye is just ****ing up every opportunity that comes to him. The stunt was creepy beyond belief and has been greeted with horror in Japan.'
He added: 'Japan is having a cultural awakening about women's rights and the MeToo movement is really strong here. What he did is being seen as an act of coercive control which is utterly unacceptable. He has completely culturally misjudged Japan.'
This is unfortunate as he has been living in a hotel in Tokyo for most of the last year.
West was seen issuing commands to Censori, a 30-year-old architecture graduate on Sunday night. A lip reader, Nicola Hickling, says that he told Censori, wearing a black fur coat over a mesh ensemble with no underwear: 'You're making a scene now.'
She nodded her head and he told her: 'Make a scene, I'll say it'll make so much sense.' He added: 'Drop it behind you and then turn, I got you.' She then tells him: 'Alright, let's go.'
West and Censori left the event soon after the red carpet walk, and were pictured getting into a waiting limo.
A source said: 'The investors in Japan who are backing the concerts are extremely upset by this. It is highly likely that they will pull the funding for the shows.
'He has greatly misjudged the tolerance of the Japanese people towards these activities. He's just not welcome any more. This will be a big blow for him because he has been living in Japan for around a year now, almost full time, and I guess he did not see this coming.'
There is also fury among his American colleagues and backers over the stunt which was pulled in front of billboards asking for charitable donations to aid those who lost their homes and their lives in the wildfires in Los Angeles earlier this month.
One said: 'This was totally disrespectful to the Grammys. To pull a stunt at what is essentially a fundraiser and in the context of what has been going on in LA is almost inconceivably stupid, crass and wrong. It's a **** up on a huge scale, but all that Kanye is interested in at the moment is launching his cryptocurrency, and everything else seems to pass him by.
The artist, who goes by Ye, was meant to launch a new album, Bully, before Christmas. He has been working on it with sound engineers since the summer of last year. However it's yet to come out and I'm told that it is now 'indefinitely delayed' because he is not happy with it.
As to why Bianca Censori has been wearing next to nothing for almost two years, the feeling among his circle is that he is acting out a shared exhibitionist/voyeuristic kink.
It's also been suggested that he regards her both as an artist and an art form – and that she shares the opinion that what they are doing is art, and that she is his muse.
Last year Censori shocked many in Paris when she appeared during fashion week wearing a fur bolero jacket, black stilettos and a pair of ultra-sheer tights, but no underwear.
At that time she had on a 'modesty' patch, an adhesive strapless thong covering only the genitals of the type used by actors filming sex scenes. West dressed head to toe in black. The musician had said a few months previously on Instagram that there would be 'no pants this year.'
Former wife Kim Kardashian, who had four children with him during their seven year marriage, said that West was controlling, and others call him domineering, unstable and narcissistic.
Kardashian said that during their time together he insisted on overseeing her wardrobe, throwing out most of her clothes and insisting she wore outfits he chose.
It's been reported that he has issued Censori with a set of rules to live by, including what to wear and specific foods she can eat. Some family and friends are concerned that the relationship seems to be unhealthily submissive.
Censori is from Melbourne, Australia. Her father Leo is a convicted criminal who has served time in prison for heroin offences as well as possessing a firearm. His brother Eris Censori was a notorious gangland killer, dubbed 'Melbourne's Al Capone', who was given a life sentence for murder.
After graduating from university in her native Melbourne and briefly running a jewellery-design business, Censori got a job as an 'architectural designer' at Yeezy in the U.S.
Two years later, shortly after finalising his divorce from Kardashian, he and Censori were 'married' in a private ceremony. No certificate appears to have been filed.
In September 2023 the pair provoked a police investigation for breaching 'standards of public decorum' after they appeared to indulge in a very public sexual act on board a water taxi crossing the lagoon. West was pictured with his trousers down while Censori was crouching between his legs.
It's said that she believes that she is Ye's 'muse' and believes in his 'genius.' She dresses modestly around his children when he sees them, and is apparently a popular stepmum.
West has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has compared himself to Picasso, Shakespeare and Jesus.
In an expletive-filled online diatribe he said he posted so many shocking pictures of her 'cause she makes me happy', adding: 'If you don't like my page and don't like what I'm posting, go f*** yourself. Seriously, leave me ? leave the king ? the f*** alone.'
West previously had a disastrous run for the U.S. Presidency in 2020, has praised Hitler, described slavery as a 'choice' and vowed to go to war with the Jewish people.
Both sportswear giant Adidas and fashion house Balenciaga severed ties with him in 2022 over his anti-Semitic remarks, cutting his billionaire status to that of a mere multi-millionaire.
Insiders said West demanded Adidas executives watch pornography to 'spark creativity', advised a Jewish manager at the company to kiss a picture of Hitler every day, hurled shoes around meetings and frequently played the race card by claiming he was the German company's 'slave'. He even hired porn actresses to appear in Yeezy promotional photos.
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