Kanye West’s former assistant has hired celebrity attorney Lisa Bloom to help prove her claims she was raped at a Diddy party, and other disturbing crimes, DailyMail reports.
Kanye Wes’s former assistant who is also an Influencer and former music manager Lauren Pisciotta is suing West for allegedly raping, sexually harassing, and stalking her while she worked for him in 2021-22.
Kayne West’s former assistant detailed West’s alleged sick sexual obsessions, and his fetish for also wanting to sleep with his targets’ mothers – including his wife Bianca Censori’s mother.
Pisciotta was represented by Mark Koorenny since she filed the initial suit last June, but Bloom has now taken over the case.
Bloom, the daughter of legendary litigator Gloria Allred, has a long career taking on celebrities accused of sexual misconduct and other misbehavior.
Her biggest scalp was taking down former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly, when her sexual harassment lawsuit on behalf of three women led to him being fired.
Pisciotta’s lawsuit delves into his infamous sex parties and the full horror of his neo-Nazi views that included hate-filled rants and forcing staff to draw swastikas.
She also claimed West promised to pay her a $4 million a year salary, bragged about it to Jay-Z, then wrongfully fired her and reneged on a $3 million severance payout.
West denied the claims, calling them ‘baseless’ and accused her of ‘blackmail and extortion’, but has yet to file a defense or even be served with the lawsuit.
Bloom said she was proud to represent ‘brave’ Pisciotta in her ‘courageous fight for justice’ against West in Los Angeles Superior Court.
She noted Pisciotta worked successfully in the music industry for 15 years in artist management, representation and development, clothing design, and social media before West.
While in the rapper’s employ, she ‘worked around the clock, making significant contributions to his fashion lines and music as a devoted, loyal employee’.
‘Unfortunately, the world has recently learned who Mr West really is, remarkably consistent with some of the charges made in Ms Pisciotta’s lawsuit several months ago,’ Bloom said.
‘Mr West is a man who bought a Super Bowl ad to promote just one item on his website: a T-shirt with a swastika, a worldwide symbol of hate, violence, and genocide.’
Bloom said Pisciotta described a ‘pattern of unlawful behavior’ by West towards his staff including sexual harassment, sex discrimination, sexual battery, outrageous anti-Semitic comments, and wrongful termination.
‘We will not rest until we get full and complete justice for her,’ she said.
Bloom began her career working for her mother, Allred, where she sued the Boy Scouts on behalf of a girl who wanted to join, and the Catholic Church for sex abuse.
She left the firm in 2001 and had a nine-year TV career appearing as a legal analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Dr Phil, and numerous others.
Bloom opened her own firm in Los Angeles in 2010, often suing celebrities and other powerful people for sexual misconduct.
Her targets included Bill Cosby and Congressman John Conyers, and helping Blac Chyna get a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend Rob Kardashian, despite receiving death threats.
She also represented model and actress Mischa Barton in her revenge porn case against Jon Zacharias, who shopped a sex tape to adult film distributors, and several Jeffrey Epstein victims.
Bloom, during the 2016 presidential election campaign, was in talks with four women about suing Donald Trump for sexual misconduct.
Two of them women went public with their claims but neither ended up filing a lawsuit. A third woman planned to sue, but a press conference with Bloom to announce it was canceled after she backed out due to getting death threats.
Bloom managed to take out O’Reilly when one of her clients, Wendy Walsh, made a complaint about the Fox News host that prompted an internal investigation.
Walsh claimed O’Reilly turned her down for a contributor role on his show after she refused to go to his hotel room. She was name one of Time magazine’s ‘Silence Breakers’ on its cover about the #MeToo movement.
Bloom revealed in 2019 that part of the reason she chose her career was that she herself was sexually assaulted as a teenager.
Bloom has also courted controversy herself, particularly over her work with Harvey Weinstein and Kathy Griffin.
Weinstein employed her in late 2016 to advise him on power dynamics and harassment, which she described as ‘an old dinosaur learning new ways’.
After the Hollywood producer was exposed as a serial sexual predator the next year, Bloom was criticized for her advisory role, even by her mother, given her history of representing sexual harassment victims.
She quit working for the Weinstein Company on October 7, 2017, two days after sexual assault allegations were exposed, admitting it was a ‘colossal mistake’
Bloom she insisted she wasn’t aware of the more serious claims when she was working for him, only of his verbal comments and ‘tantrums’.
However, reports by the New York Times claimed she actively helped Weinstein undermine his accusers, which she denied. Ronan Farrow also claimed she tried to disrupt his New Yorker investigations into Weinstein.
Bloom represented Griffin during the fallout from her controversial photoshoot where she posed with a bloodied mask resembling a beheaded Donald Trump.
The pair had a disastrous joint press conference that backfired badly for Griffin, and led to the comedian lashing out at Bloom online and claiming she was charged $40,000 for just two days work.
Bloom’s mother, Allred, 83, represented litigants against Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, Bill Cosby, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Herman Cain, David Boreanaz, Anthony Weiner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Esai Morales, R Kelly, Dr Phil, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
She also represented several victims of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein before he hung himself in jail.
However, she was also criticized for negotiating numerous ‘secret settlements’ with alleged sexual assault and harassment victims that included non-disclosure agreements.
West was keeping a lower profile in Japan with Censori since at least June – when the lawsuit was first filed – claiming to be working on a new album.
But that ended at the Grammy Awards on February 2, when he and Censori made an outrageous appearance on the red carpet.
Censori took off her coat to reveal a completely sheer outfit that left nothing to the imagination, leading to the couple being booted out of the event.
West went on an unhinged anti-Semitic Twitter rant days later that included posts mocking Pisciotta and even claiming she ‘smelled bad’.
Pisciotta’s lawyers said she was ‘in hiding’ due to harassment by West and his fans that put her in fear of her safety.
West’s Twitter attacks on Pisciotta were his first public acknowledgement of the lawsuit after months where lawyers couldn’t find him to serve the papers.
Koorenny petitioned the court in November to be able to formally serve West by email, and accused him of deliberately evading being served in person.
Los Angeles lawyer Eduardo Martorell last month filed paperwork to appear on behalf of West’s Yeezy companies, which are co-defendants in Pisciotta’s lawsuit.
It is unclear who, if anyone, is representing West personally.
West is also facing lawsuits claiming he had Censori followed by private investigators while she was overseas, and that he ‘gagged’ and choked America’s Next Top Model alumna Jenn An until she blacked out during a music video shoot.
Pisciotta’s most serious claim was that years before she worked for him, he drugged and raped her – only allegedly confessing in his last weeks as her boss.
She claimed she met West when he invited her client, a musician, to a studio session and party he co-hosted with his friend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
West announced that everyone at the event at the Santa Monica studio had to drink if they wanted to stay, and she was handed a beverage by West himself.
Pisciotta after a few sips ‘suddenly started to feel disorientated and… began to slip into an altered and highly impaired state’, the lawsuit read.
‘She felt less in control of her body and speech and that is where [her] memories of the night escape her,’ it claimed.
The next day, she felt ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ that she couldn’t remember the evening and her musician client refused to discuss what happened.
Pisciotta claimed she only learned years later why her client ‘was too traumatized and disturbed to speak about that night’.
After years of believing she was drugged by a studio assistant but escaped without being molested, she allegedly learned the truth from West.
She claimed that not long before he fired her in November 2022, he was enraged about a comment his ex-wife made about him and Pisciotta having an affair while he was still married.
The ex-wife’s name was withheld in the lawsuit, but West’s only wife besides Censori was Kim Kardashian, who divorced him earlier in 2022.
Pisciotta told West she wanted to send Kardashian a text to clear things up with her, as it ‘appeared she was under the wrong impression’ about them.
However, she claimed West told her she couldn’t send a message denying they were ever intimate, due to what happened at the Santa Monica party.
‘We did kind of hook up a little one time,’ the lawsuit claimed West told her.
‘[West] then immediately proceeded to reminisce about the time he was referring to… where he “hooked up” with [Pisciotta] after she had been drugged,’ the lawsuit claimed.
Pisciotta claimed West had told Kardashian they ‘hooked up’ but ‘left out the true nature and severity of what he did to [her]’.
Had Kardashian ‘been told the truth and known [Pisciotta] was in fact drugged and sexually assaulted by Kanye West’ she would never have made the comment, the lawsuit claimed.
A shocked Pisciotta claimed she told West she had no memory of the night, and he laughed, saying ‘women love to say they don’t remember’, then changed the subject.
Pisciotta also claimed he relentlessly tried to have sex with her again, and when she always refused he almost raped her a second time.
She claimed this was the worst incident in a pattern of extreme sexual harassment including groping, vile texts, and sick fantasies.
The lawsuit stated she was staying at the St Regis Hotel in San Francisco working on the Donda album in July 2021 and claimed West banged on her door at 6am a few days into the trip, waking her up.
Pisciotta claimed he asked to use her shower as his was broken, but minutes later dropped the towel and forcefully pushed her onto the bed, then climbed on top of her.
‘Ye then stepped onto the bed and stood tall, straddling himself over [Pisciotta’s] body and looking down on her,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘[Pisciotta], in a shocked state, somewhat braced herself for what might happen next.’
The lawsuit claimed West reached for the wall behind the bed’s headboard to brace himself as he leaned closer to her.
‘He attempted to forcefully thrust his naked body onto and penis into [Pisciotta’s] face,’ the lawsuit continued.
‘[Pisciotta] started to move her body to get up, pleading with West to stop. West removed his hand from the wall behind the headboard, forcing [Pisciotta] to stay in place.
‘At first, [West] ignored [Pisciotta’s] pleas to stop, [Pisciotta] stated over and over again to West “I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to do this.’
After a few minutes, West ‘grew annoyed and tired’ of her ‘objections to him thrusting his penis into her face and closed mouth’ that only willingly opened when she top him to stop, the lawsuit claimed.
Pisciotta claimed West attacked her at a Post Malone concert in Inglewood, California, on November 13, 2022, weeks after she was fired.
She claimed as soon as West was close enough to her, he ‘firmly placed his hand around the front of [Pisciotta’s] throat and neck, squeezed tight, and aggressively pulled her by the throat into his chest’.
He then said into her ear: ‘I always knew what I would do to you if I ever saw you again.
‘Pisciotta claimed he then squeezed her throat harder and stuck his tongue into her ear and ‘moved it around’.
Depraved Kanye West ‘told Bianca Censori he wanted sex with her mother’
Pisciotta’s lawsuit claimed West’s true nature was ‘predatory, aggressive, compulsive, vulgar, perverse, and frighteningly calculative’.
It called him a ‘premeditative and sadistic groomer’ who used his fame and position to feed his ‘insatiable sexual gratification’ and ‘animalistic desires’ that have ‘little boundaries’.
The lawsuit claimed he often had sex with employees and a ‘rotating list of guests’ in his Yeezy company’s offices.
Employees were ordered to construct makeshift bedrooms consisting of a mattress on the floor, pillows and a blanket in a room or even just a closet.
He also used the staff bathrooms and changing rooms, the lawsuit claimed.
Kanye West had a ‘kink’ for wanting to have sex with mothers of his sexual targets, as well as them, which he frequently talked about, the lawsuit claimed.
He allegedly sent Pisciotta a screenshot on September 28, 2022, of a text conversation between him and Censori about wanting to have sex with her mother.
‘i wanna f**k your mum. Before she leaves,’ he wrote, the lawsuit claimed.
According to the filing, he asked Pisciotta: ‘Should I add I meant I want you to watch me f**k your mom’.
Another time, he allegedly texted Pisciotta on September 13, 2022, about an ‘A-list fashion model’ he was ‘determined’ to have sex with, and requested she model for his sunglasses campaign.
‘Is [young A-list fashion model] better for me than [different A-list fashion model]? How do I tell her I need to f**k her mom baaad’.
Another time on June 14, 2022, he allegedly texted her about a sexual encounter with a model.
‘I feel like you could be a spectator… I just feel like she needs an audience. A beautiful audience lol,’ he wrote in a text, the lawsuit claimed.
One time, Pisciotta informed him of a delay with Japanese work visas, and she claimed he replied with a bizarre string of texts.
‘So I’ll come back to LA. I do wanna see my kids,’ he wrote, before reverting to type.
‘Aaaaaaaaand there’s soooo much p***y in LA I may rent a room, take the honey pack, drink some tequila and just take appointments,’ he allegedly added.
‘I’m a great guy and dad. But I love bad b***hes and I love to f**k the s**t outa bad b***hes and make them fall in love too.’
‘Sex trafficking’ girls from around the world and wild sex parties
Pisciotta claimed Kanye used his connections at companies like Adidas and Gap to get work visas to traffic women into the US for sex.
They were given ‘obscure job titles’ at his companies and had them sign NDAs about their experiences.
But he was ‘brazenly open’ with Pisciotta and other staff about it, giving them ‘grotesque details’ and always filmed it so they could ‘get the full picture’, the lawsuit claimed.
The lawsuit claimed West often ‘offered up’ his sexual partners, employees, and women he trafficked as ‘gifts’ to his friends and colleagues, both to ‘make himself look and feel cool’ and to gain an upper hand in business negotiations.
One was called a ‘gift straight from Russia’.
Pisciotta claimed he tried to ‘gift’ her too, but without success – including one time that the man he offered her to, an A-list celebrity, warned her about it.
The lawsuit detailed how West frequently hosted sex parties at hotels like the Nobu Ryokan Malibu hotel, Beverly Hills Waldorf Astoria and San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California.
She claimed he made up elaborate schemes to lure her and other women there, usually claiming he needed something.
Often it was ‘sex honey’, a sexual enhancement product he allegedly took and required Pisciotta to always have ample supply on hand.
She claimed he once openly admitted his plan was for her to bring him some so he could involve her in one of the parties.
He texted her, ‘Aaaaaand yeah I wanted you to bring honey and stay but it didn’t work lol. What you want for your bday’, the lawsuit claimed.
The lawsuit claimed West had ‘ever changing moods’ that meant he would either respond to her shutting down his advances and invitations to sex parties with offers of luxurious gifts, or ‘intense anger and frustration’ and assignments that were difficult or impossible, just to punish her.
West’s career infamously went into freefall when he began spouting anti-Semitic hate speech and self-identified as a neo-Nazi.
This began on October 8, 2022, when he tweeted: ‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.’
He added: ‘The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.’
Pisciotta’s lawsuit revealed what she claimed were the events leading up to this outburst, and how it began his escalating bigotry toward Jews.
Kanye West had demanded ‘the biggest hotel suite in LA’ but none of the places she knew he liked were available.
Pisciotta called their real estate adviser, who called in a favor to secure a last-minute five-star penthouse in West Hollywood.
But just 10 minutes after arriving, Kanye stormed out of the hotel calling Pisciotta in a rage, claiming the room was ‘trash’.
‘Of course [real estate adviser] got him that trash hotel room with light blue walls, because that is something a Jew would do,’ the lawsuit claimed he told her.
Kanye West then called her again, from the car, to go on a vile anti-Jewish rant, the lawsuit claimed. Later that night he sent the infamous anti-Semitic tweet.
Afterwards, he called Pisciotta and got her to read the tweet back to him, because it turned him on, the lawsuit claimed.
Kanye West sent her numerous other anti-Semitic texts detailed in the lawsuit, many extremely vile and disturbing.
The lawsuit claimed West’s bigotry got even worse after he abruptly ended his partnership with Gap and left the shared office.
He move Yeezy into one upstairs from an American Apparel factory in South Central LA at the behest of his good friend, the company’s founder.
The lawsuit didn’t name him but explained he was forced to step down from his former company and was ‘serially accused of sexual harassment and misconduct’.
They ‘shared a passion for sex’ and promptly set up Kanye’s office sex bedrooms,’ the lawsuit claimed.
As soon as the company moved in, West gathered all the staff, and ‘gave a long-winded, anti-Semitic, racially charged, threatening hate-speech’.
‘He took heavy breaths and aggressively expressed his love and admiration for the “genius” Adolf Hitler,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘Kayne West went on to announce his infatuation with Nazis and the holocaust, as well as his utter hatred for very specific Jewish people, especially the Jewish people who were currently in power in the music industry, among many other things.’
He concluded his rant by declaring he was ‘at war with Jews’.
Immediately after the speech he berated a young, newly hired graphic designer to draw a swastika, which he declined – but West insisted and bullied him, saying it was a ‘test’ and asked if he was Jewish,’ the lawsuit claimed.
The designer stood up to West and said he’d read about the Holocaust and couldn’t accept the request.
Kanye West allegedly demanded he draw it or he would be fired on the spot, and eventually the designer gave in, as West stood over him and watched.
West then instructed him to begin rendering a new Yeezy logo that ‘he desired to be inspired by and incorporate Hitler and the swastika symbol, according to the lawsuit.
He then moved on to passing around his phone to show everyone ‘the most offensive, disgusting, and vile sexual messages’ he sent to the editor-in-chief of the ‘most famous fashion publication in the world’.
The lawsuit claimed West often yelled ‘Heil Hitler!’ and performed Nazi salutes around the office.
He regularly compared himself to Hitler and a Nazi, the filing alleges. He ‘would ask employees and guests to reveal their practicing religion and, depending on their answer, they could be terminated or asked to leave for a specific amount of time’.
‘If anyone voiced their true concerns or verbally disagreed with [West] in any way, they would risk being humiliated and immediately “banned” and blacklisted.’
West spread hundreds of pieces of clothing across the floor of a large open space in the office, and had clothing designers draw swastikas on them, the lawsuit claimed.
He said his staff were ‘his army’ and ‘he was Hitler’.