Kanye West has been accused of sending suggestive messages to a young model on Instagram despite being married. Mikaela Lafuente, a 22-year-old model, has accused the Chicago rapper of being “inappropriate” toward her on social media. The incident reportedly took place in March 2024, according to The Mail Online.
Mikaela, who is dating TikTok star Bryce Hall, shared that she found it “odd” that Kanye, 47, would reach out to her, especially since they had never met before. “It was funny,” she said. “Bryce and I were in Vegas, and I was going through my Instagram DMs when I saw this message from Kanye West.” Initially, she thought it was a fake account, but it turned out to be genuine. The message was peculiar as she had never spoken to him or seen him in person before.
Screenshots from the exchange show Kanye writing, “Back in Cali,” and then asking if she wanted to “hang out” and listen to his latest album. Mikaela declined his advances. Months later, she claims it was “inappropriate” for Kanye to message her at all. “I don’t think it’s acceptable to be messaging other women when you’re married. It’s not acceptable, and it’s something I’d stand behind forever,” she said. She added that cheating in relationships is “unacceptable.”
Kanye married Bianca Censori, 29, in December 2022. Mikaela emphasized that she grew up with family members who stayed with their partners forever, and that’s what she wants for her relationship. “Monogamy is what is accepted, and cheating is unacceptable,” she stated. Mikaela also noted that while she personally wouldn’t be okay with such messages if she were in Bianca’s shoes, she acknowledged the unknowns of their relationship. “If he texts other girls, I know I said no, but others might not,” she said. “I do not support it. Maybe they have an agreement, and Bianca knows about it and is cool with it, but we will never know this.”
Bryce Hall, Mikaela’s boyfriend, took to social media to reveal screenshots of the supposed DMs between his girlfriend and Kanye’s account. In a tongue-in-cheek post, he quipped, “Kanye is sliding on my girlfriend… someone tell Kim. Cmon ye… at least invite me to the hang and listen session.”
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Kanye’s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back. It’s been a rough few weeks for Kanye and his Australian wife, Bianca. Kanye was spotted out in Berlin without Bianca by his side earlier this month. He hid his eyes behind dark sunglasses in a rare photo posted to social media. In the photo, the hitmaker wore a white hooded jacket with matching pants, a dark bandana on his head, sporty black sunglasses, and a large silver chain with a cross hanging from it. He was sporting a beard and a stern look on his face.
The outing came amid a lawsuit filed by a Yeezy employee that alleged Bianca sent “hardcore” sexual content to an employee. It was alleged in the filing that she posted the clip after Kanye announced the launch of a new adult film business, Yeezy Porn, in April. The lawsuit claimed that the videos shared by Bianca were accessible to underaged staff members. Bianca was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, however. Claims that she sent porn to employees were used to show the kinds of work conditions at the YZYVSN streaming service app.
Bianca denied the allegations in a statement delivered via Kanye’s former chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, who told The U.S. Sun he had her permission to speak on her behalf. Milo slammed the claims in the lawsuit about “the Lady of the House,” calling them “offensive, disgusting, abhorrent and categorically and wholly false.” He added that the person behind the allegations, Shemar DaCosta, had never had any kind of access to Ye, his family, or Yeezy, or any information pertinent to the company.
Kanye and Milo are named as defendants in the legal filing. The shocking lawsuit alleges that Kanye and Milo pushed “forced labor and cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment” on staff. They have been accused of making false promises to adult and underage employees to force them to work abnormal hours. Milo slammed the lawsuit’s claims that he segregated staff by race and named Discord chat rooms “slaves” and “new slaves.”
Kanye launched YZYVSN, a streaming service, in the spring of this year to skirt paying companies like Spotify and Apple Music to promote his albums, according to reporting from The Washington Post. In addition to Milo, the Grammy winner allegedly hired an international app developer group, which included employees as young as 14. The lawsuit alleges that Milo ordered all staff members to sign non-disclosure agreements and threatened to fire minors and withhold their pay if they didn’t finish their work in a timely fashion. The young employees were also allegedly forced to sign volunteer agreements.
Thigpen Legal, the firm behind the lawsuit, claims that there was also racist treatment at the company. They told NBC that “Black and African employees were segregated and given less favorable work assignments and separate ‘whites only’ working groups were formed.” Employees were reportedly forced to work through the night with no sleep or extra compensation. If they pushed back, workers were allegedly threatened with having their paychecks withheld. One of the apps was finished on May 1, at which time Kanye allegedly did not pay for the work that was done. This has led to a massive lawsuit, which is claiming unpaid wages, damages, seeking overtime pay, and suing for emotional distress.
Milo, a far-right political commentator and the former editor of Breitbart News, slammed the legal action on X. He dubbed the lawsuit a “joke” and a “sad race hustle,” claiming it was started by a “disgruntled, comically inept Black developer I call Hotep Susan who is mad he didn’t get chosen for a full-time Yeezy job.” He added that he would eviscerate the complaint line by line on camera, including the racism claims.
Source: The Mail Online, The U.S. Sun, The Washington Post, NBC
