Kanye West New Lawsuit: Rapper Refuses To Pay $400K In Fashion Rental Fees
Kanye West seemed to get caught in legal problems everywhere he goes.
According to Billboard, the "Donda" rapper is being sued by a high-end garment rental firm, who claims West owes them $400,000 in rental fees and has failed to return more than a dozen "unique, respected pieces."
The David Casavant Archive, known for providing "private collections of the world's rarest and most prized clothes," filed a complaint in Los Angeles court on Tuesday.
They alleged West stopped paying the rental payments in late 2020 for 13 of the various objects he rented, all of which remain with him.
According to the Casavant Archive, which also rents to other A-list celebrities such as West's ex-wife Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, and even Tom Brady, the unpaid fees now total nearly $222,000, and the "All of the Lights" rapper must pay an additional $195,100 to replace the items that they haven't recovered from him.
According to the provider's legal staff, all of the products are valuable "for their scarcity and prominence in the fashion business."
They continued, "They are not fungible commodities."
"The replacement costs represent the loss of future rents, loan chances, notoriety, and the lost value to the Archive as a whole, as each lost item is part of a larger collection that draws its worth from its wholeness," Kanye West said of the artifacts he lost while renting.
This is not the first legal issue that West is dealing with.
The father-of-four is now immersed in a contentious divorce case with his reality star ex-wife.
While a judge has already ruled that Kardashian is now legally single, they still have a lot of issues to work through, including assets and custody.
Aside from that, West is facing many copyright lawsuits following allegations that he used illegal sample of other people's songs in his recordings.
A bishop stated a few months ago that 20 percent of the award-winning rapper's song "Come to Life" is made up of a sample from one of his sermons, which is included at the beginning and throughout the song.
Bishop David Motem allegedly refused West's request to add sermon snippets in the song used in "Donda."
"Over the span of several years, defendants have demonstrated an alarming pattern and practice of willfully and egregiously sampling sound recordings of others without consent or permission."
