Kanye West Sued for Alleged Sucker Punch and Beating at Chateau Marmont
Kanye West, now known as Ye, is facing a lawsuit for allegedly assaulting a man at the Chateau Marmont in 2024, reportedly after the man interacted with his wife, Bianca Censori.
A new lawsuit accuses Kanye West of sucker-punching a man at a famed Los Angeles hotel two years ago and then beating the man as he lay unconscious.
The six-page lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, references an incident in April 2024 that West, now known as Ye, addressed on The Download podcast. Ye suggested he got physical with a man at the Chateau Marmont after believing the man had groped his wife, Bianca Censori.
The plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit anonymously citing “credible security concerns,” claims he did nothing to warrant the “cowardly attack.” He says he was with his brother in the venue’s outdoor garden when Ye allegedly blindsided him around 11 p.m. on April 16, 2024.
“Without warning, defendant punched plaintiff in the face. The punch knocked plaintiff to the ground where he hit his head and lost consciousness,” the complaint reads. “Defendant then repeatedly punched plaintiff as he lay unconscious on the ground, with the intent to cause physical harm.”
The man alleges Ye acted with malice by striking him while he was unconscious and then retreating “to the protection of his security detail, leaving plaintiff injured and unconscious on the concrete floor.” He says his brother likewise did nothing to provoke the alleged violence.
“Plaintiff’s brother did not engage in any offensive or inappropriate conduct toward any woman in defendant’s party earlier that evening, or at any time. This is not a case of mistaken identity in which defendant attacked the wrong brother. Neither brother engaged in any wrongful conduct at any time,” the complaint reads.
The lawsuit claims that in the days after the incident, Ye “falsely accused” the plaintiff of inappropriate conduct and then “repeated and embellished these lies” on a widely viewed podcast, fueling “public scorn, suspicion, and ridicule.”
Appearing on The Download, Ye claimed that Censori had told him she was walking to the bathroom when a man “just grabbed” her. “I didn’t see it directly, and she started explaining to me what happened, and I walked over and found him,” Ye said. “I talked to the guy. I said, ‘You need to leave right now.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, it’s okay, it’s okay.’ … No, it’s not okay. It wasn’t okay.”
Ye went on to imply that he struck the man. “He had to go to bed early. Tucked this n—- in,” he said with a laugh. “I don’t know what happened. He had to go to bed early.”
The lawsuit contends that evidence, “including video recordings from the scene, proves that plaintiff did not engage in any inappropriate or offensive conduct with a woman in defendant’s party, or anyone else.” The man says the dissemination of the “falsehoods, made with reckless disregard for the devastating impact they would have on plaintiff’s personal, professional and emotional well-being, constitutes extreme and outrageous conduct beyond all bounds of decency tolerated in a civilized society.”
Ye’s spokesman, Milo Yiannopoulos, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The lawsuit includes claims for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It asks for compensatory and punitive damages.
“The complaint speaks for itself,” the plaintiff’s lawyer, Robert Shapiro, tells Rolling Stone. He said his client filed anonymously in the hope the case could be concluded with minimal attention. “We wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see if the matter could be solved or resolved confidentially in mediation,” he says. “My policy is to try to resolve matters. If we can do them confidentially, I think it’s in everyone’s interest, and we’ll give people that opportunity.”
Earlier this month, Ye, 48, played two comeback concerts at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., marking his first U.S. arena shows in five years. In January, Ye took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal, apologizing for antisemitic remarks. Last month, a Los Angeles jury awarded a man $140,000 for injuries he suffered while gutting the rapper-producer’s $57 million Malibu beach home designed by Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Ye ordered workers to strip the showpiece property of its plumbing, toilets, fixtures, cabinets, electricity, a concrete fireplace, and two custom chimney stacks before he sold the property for $21 million in 2024, taking a steep loss.
Ye also has faced lawsuits from women alleging sexual misconduct. His former assistant, Lauren Pisciotta, sued last year with claims he sexually harassed her between 2021 and 2023, then wrongfully terminated her. Pisciotta alleges he made obscene comments about her body, demanded she wear tight-fitting clothing, groped her, forced her to watch pornographic material, and sent sexually explicit images. Ye is fighting the lawsuit, with a hearing set for June 29.
In a separate complaint, a model who appeared in a 2010 music video with Ye alleges he choked her with both hands, smeared her makeup, and then “rammed several fingers down her throat.” According to the lawsuit, Ye told her, “This is art. This is fucking art. I am like Picasso.” Ye is seeking to have the case dismissed, with a hearing set for June 2 in New York.
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