Lawyers Can’t Find Kanye West to Tell Him They’ve Quit

• Kanye West’s lawyers stopped representing him pursuing his antisemitic tirades.
• The legal professionals are unable to find him to inform him they have quit, and West is just not responding to texts.
• A former organization manager suing West can’t find a law firm to provide papers.

Right after Kanye West went on a collection of antisemitic tirades before this calendar year, just about every person near to him — help save a ragtag group of white nationalists and Elon Musk — minimize ties with the singer.

Such as his attorneys.

Greenberg Traurig LLP — which represented West in lawsuits over anything from enterprise discounts long gone negative to allegedly stolen track samples —told Insider in a assertion that it condemns “antisemitism and all despise speech or bigotry, which is repugnant to the main values we believe that in and are living” and that it experienced “moved to withdraw from our representations” of West in his litigation.

The trouble is, the company cannot obtain West to inform him they no extended stand for him.

In a December 12 letter to a federal judge reviewed by Insider, an legal professional for the organization stated they could not achieve him.

Lawyers for Greenberg Traurig were ready to provide West with files telling him they no lengthier needed to signify him. But the choose, Analisa Torres, mentioned the agency couldn’t officially reduce unfastened West, who now goes by Ye, until finally they could hand him her purchase allowing for them to withdraw.

At that position, West went dark.

“Ye ceased responding to GT’s attempts to contact him, and despite diligent initiatives and the use of a system server, GT has been not able to track down Ye or provide him,” Greenberg Traurig lawyer Justin MacLean wrote to Torres.

In a adhere to-up letter on December 21, MacLean explained they continue to couldn’t obtain West and asked the choose for an extension.

“Inspite of even more diligent endeavours and the use of a process server, GT has still been not able to track down Ye or provide him at the addresses that GT formerly recognized Ye to repeated,” MacLean wrote.

West stopped replying to texts from his lawyers

The drama is playing out in an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit that illustrates how West is floundering with out his normal guardrails.

Filed in June, it alleges West stole a sample from the 1986 Marshall Jefferson track “Move Your Overall body” for his track “Bouquets.” Sample clearance is a typical element of what any record label does, but West introduced the song “Bouquets” on his album “Donda 2,” which he created independently.

“The unauthorized sample taken by West is repeated at the very least 22 times during ‘Flowers,'” the lawsuit alleges.

The lawyers from Greenberg Traurig questioned the judge on November 2 if they could withdraw from the lawsuit, not lengthy immediately after Torres, a US district choose in Manhattan, requested the parties to prepare for a demo.

In her order, which Torres asked Greenberg Traurig to serve to West, Torres originally said West experienced right until January 4 to tell her regardless of whether he needs to get a new lawyer or stand for himself in the scenario.

MacLean also asked Torres if the firm could just text West to convey to him they are dumping him, a evaluate the judge disapproved of. West still appears to be to be getting his previous lawyers’ texts even if he does not reply to them, MacLean wrote.

“GT experienced been in a position to communicate with Ye by text concept to advise Ye of GT’s withdrawal and coordinate private support of GT’s motion to withdraw, and experienced even further been in a position to communicate with Ye as a short while ago as December 8 to endeavor to arrange for own support of the Buy,” MacLean wrote in a letter reviewed by Insider. “Although Ye experienced stopped responding to GT’s communications by text following that date, each individual indication indicates that Ye has obtained GT’s tried communications.”

Greenberg Traurig is dealing with the same problem in yet another case, a class action lawsuit filed in June from hundreds of personnel who allege they had been underpaid for doing the job on West’s 2019 opera “Nebuchadnezzar.”

In that case, held in federal court docket in California, US District Decide George H. Wu allowed Greenberg Traurig to withdraw on December 2. He prompt in a court docket submitting that West may well be ghosting the firm in that case as nicely.

“There is at the very least some suggestion that a cessation of conversation might be at least a single driving drive” for the legislation organization dropping West, Wu wrote. 

The rapper’s inability to get a attorney is also an concern in a $4.5 million lawsuit from his former business enterprise administration business.

The firm, Thomas St. John Inc., sued West in October. West signed a contract wherever the business would deal with his finances for 18 months, at the price of $300,000 for every month.

But, the company alleges, West stopped having to pay following only 3 months. West mentioned he in no way intended to abide by the contract’s 18-thirty day period expression, according to the lawsuit.

“Mr. West said words and phrases to the impact of ‘The 18 thirty day period expression was bullshit’ and ‘You’re crazy for even contemplating I would adhere to it,'” the lawsuit says.

In courtroom documents initial reported by The Sun and reviewed by Insider, attorneys for Thomas St. John explained on December 19 that they couldn’t provide West with the lawsuit.

West’s preceding legal professionals — presumably the kinds at Greenberg Traurig — advised the administration business they no for a longer period represented West, and the business could not locate any substitute organization.

The tackle associated with West’s businesses in California Secretary of Condition filings wasn’t accurate, the legal professionals wrote, and mail despatched to three other addresses associated with West did not seem to access him.