The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Trevor Phillips, who says he was hired in November 2022, around the time a series of antisemitic remarks publicly made by Ye lost the artist his major-label record deal and put his businesses in jeopardy.

Phillips was initially hired to oversee “projects related to growing cotton” and other plants in an effort to make Yeezy, Ye’s fashion brand, “self-sustainable,” the lawsuit said, and then went on to work for Donda Academy, Ye’s private school in Southern California.

Phillips’s lawsuit claims that Ye made antisemitic comments in front of staff members at Donda Academy, including, “the Jews are out to get me” and “the Jews are stealing all my money.” After Adidas ended its decade-long partnership with Ye over his public remarks, the lawsuit claimed, the rapper told Phillips: “The Jews are working with Adidas to freeze up my money to try and make me broke!”

The lawsuit claims that Ye treated Black employees at Donda Academy, including Phillips, “considerably worse than white employees.”

Representatives for Ye and Donda Academy did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.

Late last year, as he was preparing to release new music, Ye put out a statement written in Hebrew in which he apologized to the Jewish community for his remarks, writing “I deeply regret any pain I may have caused.” His newest album, a collaboration with the R&B singer Ty Dolla Sign called “Vultures 1,” has been a streaming success, giving Ye the 11th No. 1 album of his career.

Most of the remarks that torpedoed Ye’s corporate deals were made in public, including on social media and on podcasts. In the lawsuit, Phillips describes comments he claims Ye made in private. The lawsuit says that during a conversation at the Nobu Hotel in Malibu, Calif., Ye said the Holocaust was “fake,” called Hitler “great,” adding: “Hitler was an innovator! He invented so many things. He’s the reason we have cars.”

In that same meeting, the lawsuit accuses Ye of making homophobic and antisemitic remarks, saying: “Yeah I am going for the gays! FIRST the Jews, THEN the gays.”

The lawsuit contains a screenshot of a text message it claims Ye sent to Phillips taking issue with how he carried out a task. “I am on some complete Hitler level stuff,” Ye says, then adds, “Minus the gas chambers.”

The lawsuit took issue with Ye’s conduct at Donda Academy, the school he founded. It claims that Ye told two children enrolled there that “he wanted them to shave their heads and that he intended to put a jail at the school — and that they could be locked in cages.”

“The staff quickly distracted the children,” the lawsuit says, “and escorted them out of the room.”

In a 2022 television interview, Ye said Donda Academy had more than 80 students and that its mission was “to be a performing arts school, to be a design school, an architecture school, a farming school, an automotive engineering school, a computer hardware and software school” as well as to “teach the Gospel.”

The suit said that Phillips’s daughter and younger brother attended the school, and that Phillips’s mother had helped him get the job there. The current status of Donda Academy, which has been named in other lawsuits brought by former employees, is unclear.

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In a statement posted to social media Friday morning, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing said the company and the pundit “have ended their relationship.”

“The rumors are true — I am finally free,” Owens said in her own post.

The details of Owens’s exit weren’t immediately clear, but it follows increased tension over antisemitic rhetoric that pitted Owens against Shapiro, who is Jewish, and the rest of the site’s more mainline conservative figures.

The Daily Wire didn’t respond to a request for further comment. Owens couldn’t be reached for an immediate comment.

In a Thursday appearance on “The Breakfast Club” radio show, Owens acknowledged her strained relationship with Shapiro but claimed that “Ben doesn’t have the power to fire me.”

Owens’s split with the Daily Wire represents the latest example of a high-profile conservative figure contending with the expectations of a more staid employer. Last year, Fox News fired star host Tucker Carlson for reasons that were never made public but which came after he promoted conspiracy theories and disparaged Ukrainian leaders.

 telegenic presence and pugnacious social media warrior, Owens, 34, first rose to prominence on the right for her commentary skeptical of women who had been harassed during the 2014 “GamerGate” controversy that consumed the video game world. An unabashed booster and defender of Donald Trump, she launched a campaign in 2018 known as “Blexit” to try to encourage Black voters to leave the Democratic Party.

In 2020, she joined the Daily Wire — a Nashville-based conservative entertainment conglomerate with a massive following and ambitions to become a conservative alternative to Hollywood — and immediately became one of its leading pundits.

Her profile grew when rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, praised the way she “thinks,” both appearing ata 2022 fashion show wearing matching “White Lives Matter” shirts. But Ye had already moved into his new role as an erratic provocateur, recently making antisemitic comments — if occasionally apologizing — and speaking admiringly about Adolf Hitler.

Meanwhile, Owens began to use her Daily Wire platform to promote antisemitism — claiming this month on her show that “secret Jewish gangs” terrorize Hollywood — and recently favorited a tweet repeating a lie about Jews drinking Christians’ blood.

She has also clashed publicly with the avowedly pro-Israel Shapiro by criticizing the nation in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.

“I think she’s been absolutely disgraceful,” Shapiro said in a recording posted on X in November. “I think that her faux-sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous.”

Owens shot back on X that “you cannot serve both God and money,” in what appeared to be a jab at her employer.

Still, the November feud appeared to have been settled, with Boreing releasing a statement saying Owens’s “job is secured.”

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