Representatives for Ye are firing back at assault and trafficking allegations made by former assistant Lauren Pisciotta.
In a statement shared with Complex, a spokesperson for Yeezy responded to the amended complaint against the artist formerly known as Kanye West.
“Lauren Pisciotta’s amended complaint is the fourth version she has advanced. Each new revision contradicts the others; each is more absurd and outlandish than all previous claims combined,” read the statement. “Does Ms. Pisciotta actually believe her confabulations? We cannot know. But this breathless new installment of fantasy fiction discredits all past, present and future testimony.”
The spokesperson added, “The Courts are no place to indulge delusions and mental disturbances. We stand ready to annihilate Ms. Pisciotta’s tall tales before a jury—an exoneration so inevitable that even she, lost in her fog of fantasy, must surely see it coming.”
Milo Yiannopoulos, speaking as a Yeezy representative and on behalf of Ye’s family, also said that the “absurdity” of Pisciotta’s amended claims were “self-evident.”
“[S]he picked the one rapper who loathes violence, has never been arrested, and doesn’t even own a gun,” Yiannopoulos continued. “An extortionist of Ms. Pisciotta’s vaulting ambition ought to choose her victims more wisely.”
He characterized Pisciotta as a “fantasist,” alleging she once “demanded” a diamond-encrusted crocodile Hermès Birkin bag “in exchange for a single act of fellatio.”
The response follows Pisciotta’s amended complaint, filed on July 8, in which the 36-year-old accused Ye, 48, of a wide range of misconduct during her time as his assistant and later chief of staff, including sexual harassment, assault, battery, sex trafficking, false imprisonment, and emotional abuse.
Pisciotta’s complaint claims that Ye orally raped her without consent and attempted to vaginally penetrate her with his fingers. She alleges that both of these assaults took place during the course of her employment, which reportedly spanned between July 2021 to October 2022.
She claims she relocated to Florida to “escape” his behavior but says the harassment continued through actions like swatting.
Pisciotta’s attorney, Arick Fudali of the Bloom Firm, spoke with Complex’s Shawn Setaro last month about Ye’s social media activity, such as a tweet where he claimed he’s “hit women before.”
“I’ve represented alleged victims against a lot of very high profile people who have a platform and are able to speak very freely about anything they want,” said Fudali at the time. “I have never, in my entire career of representing alleged victims, seen a defendant tweet out admissions to the case in the middle of litigation and discovery. This is absolutely a new one.”
